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North Korea: Haunting images of the indoctrination ceremony show how communist ‘cult’ leaders threatening nuclear war are poisoning next generation

By C. J. Refsland on April 12, 2013 • ( 2 )

My Comment: Pray for the People of Korea

By Daily Mail

They are barely seven years old, but these glum-looking children are already being drafted into a tyrannical regime hellbent on waging nuclear war with the world.

Standing in arrow-straight rows, their faces are hardly the picture of happiness as they are forced to pledge their allegiance to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and call him ‘father’.

Troubling images of them being inducted into an organisation likened to the Hitler Youth emerged as their despot leader pressed ahead with plans to launch a ballistic missile, potentially with nuclear capabilities.

First steps into tyranny: North Korean children stand in line while officers tie bandanas around their necks at a ceremony to induct them into the Korean Children’s Union

Indoctrinated: Retired North Korean military members tie red bandanas around the necks of the children to complete the ritual

Followers: Members of the Korean Children’s Union chat while spectators take their seats before the ceremony

Hierarchy: The children stay in the union until the age of 13 when they move into the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League

Brainwashed: The children are taught to be loyal to the Kim dynasty, with education about the accomplishments of the Communist republic’s founder Kim Il Sung and late leader Kim Jong Il

N KOREA DEFECTOR TELLS OF LIFE IN ‘VIRTUAL PRISON’

A North Korean woman has told how she was so desperate to escape the pariah state’s reign of terror she risked the execution of her entire family to smuggle them out of the country.

Lee Hyeonseo, right, said the communist regime forced people to live in a ‘virtual prison’ with no concept of human rights.

Anyone caught trying to defect is routinely sentenced to death as Kim Jong Un attempts to hide the reality of food shortages, labour camps and indoctrination from the outside world.

And because punishment is handed down for three generations, even the husband or wife, children and grandchildren of those who escape are imprisoned.

Miss Lee said she made the ‘the long and very difficult’ journey to South Korea after bribing her way out of the country.

She did not give details how she managed it, but she very likely didn’t have any money.

Speaking from a drop-in centre for North Koreans at a Seoul University, she told Sky News: ‘People in the north don’t know the truth about what is going on as they can’t hear or see anything about the wider world.

‘They don’t know about human rights or the suffering. They live in a virtual prison.’