How North Korean kids are trained to KILL as they are brainwashed, starved & spied on in Kim’s brutal schools

According to defectors, children attending Kim Jong-un’s cruel schools are brainwashed, hungry, spied on, and even taught how to kill.

The Sun interviewed brave Ji Hyun Park, who twice fled the country, about how kids are spied on, hungry, and made to “kill” US soldiers as part of playground activities.

In Chongjin City, North Hamgyong, Ji, who is now 56, grew up in a two-room home where she shared a bedroom with her parents and brothers.

Ji was nurtured on a diet of anti-West propaganda after being brainwashed from birth by the regime, whose media arm consists of just one TV channel and one newspaper.

Ji was also taught to “hate the enemy countries” when he was in kindergarten.

“We hated Japan and hated America, and we also hated the South Koreans because they are ‘American colonies’.”

Ji claimed that she and her companions were trained to pretend to battle with sticks in kindergarten, where the North Koreans defeated the Americans.

She added that during sports days, American soldier models were beaten.

“One is the Korean soldier, and the other is the American soldier,” Ji clarified.

Thus, we engage in combat. However, Korean forces consistently prevail. You are growing up playing these as a child.

The human rights advocate, who currently resides in Manchester, UK, claimed that her education in North Korea was founded on “hate” and “political emotions.”

Ji’s school history classes were influenced by the government’s agenda, which included distorted accounts of global conflicts and events.

She said that they had been brainwashed, but “but we never talked about that”

“Of course, we were scared because we didn’t receive any information from outside the country,” she stated.

“There is still only one newspaper and one TV [channel] in North Korea.

“They always said that North Korea is a socialist country and the greatest country in our world, not only Asia, but in our world.”

Timothy Cho, a fellow defector who currently resides in the UK, had to flee North Korea’s regime twice.

He now advocates for change in North Korea to help others see the same world he has, having been left wounded by his birthplace.

Timothy recalls how his studies from nursery school through primary school were riddled with propaganda, even though he left school at the age of ten.

In order to shame Western nations and present the North Korean way of life as ideal, textbooks will be replete with made-up stories.

He claims that passing off athletic instruction as a chance to provoke violence is another common practice.

He recalls a game in which children were instructed to thump Western-made toys, such dolls or army men, with a stick.

An internalized sense of anger and hatred toward North Korea’s adversaries resulted from this.

The two-time defector claimed that portraying each Supreme Leader as a god to children is one of the state’s other most powerful tools.

“They brainwash kids into thinking Kim is the nation’s god,” he told The Sun.

“North Korea does not have any religious education at all because the Kim family is God and Kim is a state religion by itself.”

The so-called enemy is also attacked using other religions.

“They call Christianity the American religion and make out that America used religion to try to destroy North Korean society and the country,” Timothy went on.

“They actually use a religious structure to build a society and make it a hermit kingdom.”

Timothy added that every Friday, groups of kids and adults would go to “criticism sessions” where they would basically criticize their friends’ ideas.

“It took me some time to break the chains of brainwashing, misperception, misunderstanding,” he stated.

NORTH KOREA’S FAMINE

Up to 3.5 million people are believed to have perished in North Korea between 1994 and 1998 as a result of the harsh rationing system implemented by the country’s former dictator, Kim Il-sung.

Families were given less than 2 kg of grains and corn per month as a result of harsh rules put in place when the country lost Soviet support and faced economic hardship.

For years, Ji lived on the verge of starvation as her family received 700g every two weeks.

“There’s not enough,” she remarked. As you may imagine, we were constantly hungry.

But we didn’t voice any complaints. We didn’t voice any complaints. The government claimed we had say yes because of North Korean systems.

“Nobody says no.”

“For this reason, our parents always advised us to watch what we say. We have no idea who is listening.

Officials informed them that food was being rationed and that the economy had collapsed due to US sanctions.

The nation claimed that people had just been “ill” although scores of deaths persisted.

However, Ji saw her uncle Ilsub go through it.

She sobbed as she discussed caring for him in his last hours because the two were quite close.

Ji stated he was reduced to “bones” and would constantly scream for food because he was famished.

He became ill after they fed him soup, and then he passed away in front of her.

She said, “He no longer looked human.”

“We always saw the dead bodies in the street.”

Knowing that secret police were “always watching and listening” made Ji cautious about what she said out loud from an early age.

She disclosed the existence of “political prisons” for those who disapproved of or disobeyed the regulations.

After that, they and their family were made to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

After seeing the disappearance of people they knew, Ji’s family spent years being cautious about following the regulations in North Korea.

Ji grew up with “no family pictures” on the wall—only the Supreme Leader’s photos.

They would thank Kim II-Sung every morning when they woke up, and the despot’s administration would use this imposed sense of national pride to quell opposition.