Gorlicka: What is the beetle ideology?

North Korea is seen as a communist state in our country, both in terms of the economical strategy and in terms of the ideological aspect. This incorrect presumption is due to the fact that human nature gives emergence to the desire to simplify our own worldview on the rule of comparing to what is close to us, what we have experienced, or what we have been taught. An additional problem is the fact that we see, for example, Asians as "a small bit of another Europeans", i.e. we measurement their values, customs, sense of aesthetics or our own measure. This is most likely due to the fact that our education strategy is definitely Euro-centric and that is the point of view we have had since we were young. Meanwhile, there are worlds beyond ours and they are profoundly different from it. They're not worse or better, but they follow their own unique rules.

Korean Racism

Well, in the case of modern North Korea, we are dealing with an ideology called Jura, in the literal sense of ‘self-reliance’. At the very beginning, it should be stressed that this is simply a kind of ethnocentric, totalitarian, chauvinist ideology and utilizing the natural tendency of Koreans in general to avoid “mixing” with another cultural groups. Koreans, even inhabiting e.g. the territory of the Russian Federation, seldom enter mixed matrimony or extramarital relationships, while methians, i.e. descendants of white and yellow, are seen as at least suspects. In the case of North Korea, "raceal purity" is observed peculiarly carefully due to the fact that it even concerns the ban on entering into love interactions with South Koreans (abstracting from the anticipation of entering into specified relationships at all due to the deep degree of closure of this country to external contacts). This even led to an anthropological and linguistic differences between South and North Koreans.

It should so begin with the fact that for a North Korean his nation or even race (in the sense of the Korean race from their point of view) is besides the purest in terms of all virtues, national characteristics, habitus, etc. The Korean race must so take care not to "suck" its excellent genes with any external factors, due to the fact that it threatens to lose national identity, perfection, and besides to deprive them of being a kind of "chosen nation".
Not without a code, I quote this word here, for it is characteristic of all chauvinisms and ethnocentrisms, or the belief that members of a given national group are predestined to something higher than the others. It is emphasized in North Korea (but besides in Japan, for example) the absolute endemicity of the people of Korea, and to this end the country's historical policy chooses historical facts from a key that favours specified a position (in "free" Japan is precisely the same, there is virtually no freedom of technological investigation in the discipline of past there, and any technological stances that contradict sometimes apparent historical falsifications are severely punished).

Female Leadership Characteristics

The Korean people are ruled by the Kim family, which in Western media is ironic, mocking and lacking deeper knowing attributed to divine qualities. From the point of view of the politics of the North Korean power elites, the Kims themselves are not portrayed as gods who have no physiological needs or supernatural abilities. This kind of presentation of the leader (currently Kim Jong Una) Korean is harmful to those curious in the subject, due to the fact that it hinders knowing of ideology beetles. Well, the Korean leader has both male and female qualities, but with the advantage of the female ones, which is reflected in the visual layer (soft, circular facial features). It is not irrelevant that in North Korea the mother's figure has a advanced status, which reflects even the dictionary definitions available in that country. The definition of a female is highly advanced, and the concept of a man is almost limited to the opinion that he is simply the boy of a mother. It is so essential to look through the prism of this cognition mocked at the so-called. Western images of the obese Kims. In addition, overweight, mildness of facial features and plumpness are considered attractive visually, as in Europe, a slim figure. Many interesting technological books have been written on the biology of human attractiveness, to which I refer, where differences in the perception of beauty in different parts of the planet are justified. However, to be returned is to further consider the characteristics of the state ideology of North Korea, as it turns out to be highly intriguing with a closer knowing of it.

The leader is usually portrayed as a gentle, smiling, lenient figure for his fellow countrymen, unmanly or even effeminate. If we put this image together with image Even russian leaders can see contrast. The russian leader was to be male, serious, harsh, strong, omnipotent and standing on the watch of order, according to which the russian nation, each of its members was to act as a mode in a perfectly working machine. erstwhile examining North Korean art, which deals with the illustration of the leader himself, we will see that we are most frequently dealing with the image of a mother, leniently looking at the frivolity of her own children, allowing them to have a advanced degree of impermanence, infantilism, and even laziness in the workplace. The Korean people are the children. Children incapacitated for their own safety, protected tenderly from the corruption of the outside world, his only apparent attraction (most frequently consumer) which takes distant a man's soul, prevents spiritual growth and yet leads to destruction. That is why Korean television, although highly carefully censored, does not avoid showing the alleged South Korean prosperity. The North Korean people are somewhat aware of their inferior social position compared to even their own neighbours, but they are informed that their way, though unpleasant, is the right one.

Child Nation

The nation-children are to be taken care of permanently, decide (similarly as our parents did) about what hairs their members can wear, what they dress, where to stay, what to do, and what to watch and what to see. For ‘psotics’, i.e. frequently encountered at the border with China or the Russian Federation, the illegal acquisition by North Koreans of any material (from press to audiovisual) is provided for sanctions from ‘mother’. Escapes from the country are peculiarly severely punished, as the fugitive “stuck” is someway alien to the influence of a harmful external world. besides in Japan, a abroad stay for more than six months (except for diplomatic missions) is treated as 1 of the types of national treason. Thus, despite the deep Americanization of this country, there are inactive rules characteristic of the region and the knowing by the far east Asians of what the welfare of the nation and loyalty to their countrymen is. It may be amazing for the Reader at the same time that, according to statistics, most of the refugees from the DPRK return to their homeland on their own, even though they are aware that they are waiting for them, for example, to stay in a penal colony.

Collective responsibility

Since, in Asia, the alleged "generational revenge" is indeed a conventional trait of the region, North Korea does not deviate from the regulation in this respect. For the inappropriate behaviour of 1 associate of the nation, his full household suffers. The penalties are so collective, according to the ancestral key, transgenerational. It should be stressed here that generational punishments and knowledge, i.e. the ability to list ancestors back to the seventh generation (most frequently from the father's line), is average in the Turko-Mongolian Central Asian nations, otherwise, the individual who neglected this part of his ancestral identity (in Asians there is simply a alleged multi-layer or multi-level identity) as traitors, both his own families and simply those sentenced to social ostracism (which is clearly limited in large, "Europeanised" urban centres). So, as if we did not justice the full family's punishment for the faults of 1 citizen, this is simply a typical phenomenon for the region and is not due to the specificity of North Korean alone.

Hospitality and care

The Koreans are besides divided according to a hierarchical structure, which simplifyly divides the nation into 3 layers: the majority of the nation, which is, of course, the base of the pyramid, the authoritative layer and the elite of power, i.e. the Kim household itself. It should be stressed that tourists are admitted to North Korea as if they belong to at least an authoritative layer and are treated with respect and hospitality (of course, provided that the rules of the country are respected). Tourists usually receive 2 guardians (always a female and a man) who have the ability to communicate in their home language. North Korea itself is simply a safe country to travel in contrast to many touristly besieged corners of the world. However, guests are isolated from average Koreans, limited contact is not only due to the reflection of the information order prevailing in North Korea but besides to the specified saturation of conscious or subconscious residents of what the intellectual tourists will bring with them.

Cult but rational

Ideology beetles – as I mentioned at the beginning of the text – it is ethnic. It is definitely closer to fascism, chauvinist, German Nazism, Ukrainian flagism, than in fact to russian internationalist socialism, caring even for corenisation Inhabiting its territory of nations, not seeing anything problematic in the mixing of racial and cultural between members (then ultimately) of the developing russian nation. Korean chauvinism is characterized by a primal perception of national identity, i.e. a Korean should be born of a Korean parent and father, recognise the rule of racial purity as 1 of the overriding, absolutely love the “mother of a nation” (British besides called their own queen “Queen Mother”) and follow its instructions. The Kims' “Cult” is not, however, any kind of deification, i.e. the rationality of the Korean people is respected and is not attempted to present something with which it could not deal in the sense of “material”. The raising of children in a planet of eternal fantasies at any point begins to irritate with its imperviousness and ceases to be nevertheless disciplining.

Interpreting difficulties

The knowing of the North Korean ideology is, nevertheless, hard to realize for people who do not talk Korean, as the content provided on the websites of the DPRK's government is completely different in English and Korean. While we can read in English that North Korea wants peace in the world, to live in accord with all nations, to be a average associate of the global community, or to abide by all the principles and rights established within global organizations, the Korean language describes the satisfaction of deceiving the remainder of the planet about the actual situation of North Korea, its abroad policy, its security, or how the elites of power perceive this global community, which they have, no less, than in absolute contempt. Knowing this fact, we should ask ourselves how actual there are, for example, reports of a famine in North Korea by the North Korean diplomatic corps itself, amazingly perfectly correlated with crises bordering on the war between both Koreas and the US (which does not mean that there is no hunger problem in this country at all; here I mean only authoritative messages, where North Korea is admitted to be at hazard of starvation).

In conclusion, the Koreans of the DPRK are a nation immersed in chauvinist, racist ideology, surviving in an atmosphere of permanent mobilization to defend their own homelands, not so much as purity and natural goodness, protected, and more raised by a leader of maternal, female qualities. This nation is taught that it does not gotta fight its own urges or biological conditions by force (as the russian man had to do by giving himself up completely). It has the right to be uninformed, protected from harmful content (we are already protected from them!) like children. All to stay the "cleanest race" in the world.

Sylvia Gorlicka