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Mysterious.
Terrifying.
North Korea is the most isolated country on Earth.
Kim Jong Il, known as "the Dear Leader",
rules as a god-king.
He controls the world's fourth largest army
and plutonium for nuclear weapons.
Now, we'll penetrate North Korea
with a man on a mission to help the blind see.
We'll find a world of absolute conformity
full of government minders.
Tomorrow you are going out of our country.
And unimaginable horrors that
people risk their lives to escape.
As we try to capture the real
story of life inside North Korea.
1:45 a.m.
The 38th parallel.
Along the border of North and South Korea.
The 148 mile-long border is the
most heavily militarized in the world.
This joint South Korean-American platoon
is on constant alert for
infiltrators from the North.
Behind these fences, North
Korea has a million-man army
and now nuclear weapons which they could
use or possibly give away to terrorists.
The soldiers can monitor every sound
and movement close to the border.
But what makes this place so dangerous
is the uncertainty of what lies
on the other side of the divide.
North Korea is one of the most
secretive countries on Earth.
It's regarded as an "intelligence black hole".
But we know some basic facts:
North Korea is roughly the size of Mississippi.
It has 23 million people,
a showcase capital Pyongyang,
and is completely controlled by Kim Jong Il.
The Dear Leader is an absolute dictator,
worshipped in a personality cult perhaps
more extreme than any other in history.
Kim Jong Il is the son
of God in North Korea.
He is the state.
The notion of questioning his ability to rule
or what he does doesn't enter into things.
Everyone is trained from birth
to love the Dear Leader,
and no outside sources of
information are allowed.
Newspapers and television are
controlled by the state.
There's no Internet,
cell phones have been banned,
and many don't even know a
man has walked on the moon.
There's no freedom.
It's a country run on tyranny and dictatorship.
I don't think anyone can understand North Korea
until they experience it.
North Korea is known as the Hermit Kingdom
because of its extreme isolation
from the rest of the world.
But on the other side of Asia
one man is literally planning to bring
light to the darkness of North Korea.
Nepalese eye surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit
travels the world setting up eye
clinics in developing countries.
Dubbed a "miracle doctor" by the media,
Ruit trains local doctors in inexpensive
and effective treatments for cataracts.
North Korea may be his biggest challenge yet.
Thousands of people go blind,
due to a lack of even the most
basic medical facilities.
The annual number of surgeries
performed is just, just very little
and the blindness magnitude is
one of the highest in the world.
Ruit plans to travel from Nepal to North Korea
to do more than 1000 surgeries
in less than 10 days.
His mission is purely humanitarian.
But what the North Koreans don't know is
that our camera crew is going with him.
- So what do you think of the
cameras so far, Dr. Ruit?
- I think it's big.
- You think these cameras are big?
- Yes, it's big.
Our camera crew is posing as members of
Dr. Ruit's medical team.
We're going to document his work, and show the
world what life is like inside North Korea.
This meeting in a Katmandu hotel room will be
the last time our team can converse in private.
- So there will be a North Korean man
traveling with us the entire time?
- Yes.
- From here to Pyongyang?
- From here to Pyongyang
and back to Katmandu.
North Korean minders will meet us in Nepal and
monitor every step until the trip is over.
Doctor Ruit knows our South African camera man
Bryan and I will be watched very carefully.
- Do you think Bryan and I will be followed?
- I am sure.
And he's concerned that the cameras will attract
too much attention as we enter the country.
We can put the camera down there.
And wants to pack them more carefully,
buried beneath the medical equipment.
Okay, and pack it with linens.
At the Katmandu Airport, a North
Korean official checks our luggage.
And Dr. Ruit's plan for packing
our cameras seems to work.
Everything's okay with the luggage.
Two North Korean minders are
already keeping an eye on things.
And our team is on edge as we wait for our flight.
All of us will be watched very carefully.
I think you should shut the camera down now.
After hours in the air, we steal these
shots as we approach North Korea.
Normally Americans are not welcome here.
And I'm told I'll be the only
one in the entire country.
North Korean animosity toward the U.S.
hasn't changed since the Korean War
more than a half century ago.
They still view us as imperialists
and hold us responsible for dividing
the country between North and South.
On the ground, we get our first
glimpses of the capital, Pyongyang
and shoot undercover footage.
No easy task with minders in the car.
We pass 12 lane highways with hardly any cars.
And see images of the Great Leader everywhere.
Pyongyang is a city of the relatively privileged:
The government rewards strong
supporters by letting them live here.
And unless you're a high ranking official,
you need a permit to travel
anywhere in the country.
They've seized our cell phones.
Immediately, there's a feeling of being
completely cut off from the outside world.
At the hospital, hundreds of blind people
have already gathered for surgery.
Since the North Koreans know we're documenting
Dr. Ruit's medical procedures,
we're allowed to shoot inside.
Hopefully, this will let us see past the
propaganda that's usually presented to outsiders.
This hospital is probably as
fancy as it gets in North Korea.
Most of this cutting edge equipment
was donated by other countries,
but few doctors know how to use it.
This one is from America.
Iris.
The government has let Dr. Ruit and his team come
because it's a way for Kim Jong
il to get services to his people.
Our team has had to bring most of
our equipment and supplies with us.
And because blackouts are common,
even here in the capital,
we've brought our own generator for power.
We can only stay for 10 days,
but in that time, Dr. Ruit hopes to conduct more
than 1000 operations to help the blind see.
And if the mission's to be a true success,
he'll train North Korean surgeons
to carry on his work after we leave.
With such a poor quality of
surgery which is performed,
we need to do a lot of training programs.
While we're anxious to get to work,
first our minders want to take us to
see their version of North Korea.
We're starting to get a sense of what it's like
to be trapped under the iron grip of Kim Jong Il.
At our hotel, all of the books are by one author,
Kim Jong Il's father, the founder
of North Korea, Kim Il Sung.
I hope we can see what life's really like here,
but Kim Jong Il controls everything.
And the rare times that he's
granted foreigners access,
they've only been shown idealized
versions of the country.
Like in this Dutch documentary
called "A day in the Life".
In this scene, a mother sings nursery
rhymes as she walks her child to school.
Sing along:
The pathetic Americans kneel on the ground.
They beg for mercy.
Then she goes to work
at the garment factory.
It's a worker's paradise.
We wish to follow our infinitely good hearted
comrade Kim Jong Il for eternity, and honor him.
Finally, she returns home to a lavish meal.
Try some pancake. And a little kimchi.
You should eat this pancake with the soy sauce.
The film shows only the cheerful facade,
because here, image matters.
After letting us shoot inside the hospital for days,
our minders take us for a walk in a
park and allow us to bring our cameras.
Our cameraman comes across a bench.
- So why is it in a glass box?
- Sorry?
- Why is it in a glass box?
- Our people want to preserve, no damage.
- Oh, yes.
It's a special bench sat upon by
none other than Kim Il Sung himself.
That's cool, Mr. Park.
Very cool.
Back on the streets of Pyongyang,
our cameraman wants to take a photograph
of a statue of the Great Leader.
It's huge, so he lies on the
ground to make it fit in his shot.
But the minder lets us
know this is a mistake.
A big one.
No.
There is no one, no foreigner, who just lie down
in front of our Great Leader's statue.
I'm afraid.
Tomorrow, you are going out of our country.
The minder doesn't follow through on his
threat to kick us out of the country.
We have the Great Leader in my heart.
In our heart!
But it's clear that antagonism still exists
between North Koreans and outsiders,
more than 50 years after the fighting ended.
In 1910, Korea was colonized by Japan.
The brutal occupation ended more than 1000
years of Korea's reign asa sovereign nation,
and was a major source of shame.
Japan lost Korea in World War II
and the country was split between
the American-backed South
and the Russian-backed communist North,
led by a young rebel named Kim Il Sung.
In 1950, Kim Il Sung invaded the
South to unify the country,
and the U.S. opposed Communist
expansion at all costs.
As many as four million people
died in the Korean War,
which included some of the most
brutal warfare the world has known.
In a four-month period alone, the U.S.
dropped nearly one million gallons of ***.
18 of 22 major cities in North Korea
were at least half obliterated.
In 1953, after three years of fighting,
Korea remained divided in almost exactly the
same place as it had been before the war began,
the 38th parallel.
While most people think the war
ended more than 50 years ago,
there never was a peace treaty.
And more than 19,000 days later, the very,
very long ceasefire continues today.
The joint security area on
the border of South Korea
is the one place where North Korean forces
stand toe to toe with the rest of the world.
On one side of this concrete marker,
is North Korea.
On the other,
the joint American-South Korean forces.
Every flinch is monitored.
Neither side wants to blink,
and nobody has for more than 50 years.
In this unique area,
each side shows its best face.
The North puts only well-fed, top officers here.
And the South stacks their side with men
who are at least 5 foot 8 inch or taller.
But only one side is worried that their soldiers
might want to defect across the divide.
You can see on the North Korean
side how they're set up.
They have two soldiers watching each
other so neither of them defect.
And then they have their leader to the North
making sure that no one else from the
North will come down and defect.
With everyone watching, no one can cross here.
And defecting anywhere else along
the DMZ is nearly impossible.
The DMZ, or de-militarized zone,
is a 2.5 mile-wide buffer that runs 148 miles
along the border of North and South Korea.
With more than a million land mines, high voltage
electric fences, and nearly two million soldiers,
crossing over is almost certain suicide.
The DMZ helps North Korea keep its
own citizens inside the country
and cut off from the rest of the world.
- She's very blind,
isn't she?
- She's totally blind.
At the hospital, more than 1000
blind patients from all walks of life
have been picked by the
government to see Dr. Ruit.
Dr. Ruit's team examines the patients
to make sure cataracts are the
source of their blindness.
A cataract is a clouding of the
normally clear lens of the eye.
It's like a window that is frosted, or yellowed.
With the right equipment, it's easy
enough to peel out the clouded lens,
and replace it with a clear plastic one.
Dr. Ruit is ready to begin his surgery.
With his modern equipment and expertise,
it's a quick and simple procedure.
It takes only minutes to replace each lens.
But with more than 1000 patients waiting,
Dr. Ruit's team needs to treat
more than 100 people every day.
In North Korea, Dr. Ruit continues his work
and the medical team prepares patients for surgery.
In the developed world, cataracts rarely
get so bad, especially in young people,
that they result in blindness.
But here, because of poor care
and likely poor nutrition,
the incidence is as much as 10
times higher than in the West,
and afflicts young and old alike.
The demand here is enormous.
But in North Korea, cataracts are only a
small part of the humanitarian nightmare.
German physician and human rights
activist Norbert Vollertsen
worked for over a year in North Korea.
He shot pictures of the
horrible medical conditions.
Bloody old operating tables,
beer bottles for IVS
no antibiotics or anesthesia.
Of course, the North Korean government will
tell you everything is free in North Korea.
It's not true
because it's not available.
There is no medicine.
There's no running water.
There's even no soap in the hospital.
But it was the lack of food and its effect on
children that made the most lasting impression.
When I was a medical doctor in North
Korea, I saw a lot of starving children.
I saw children dying under my
hands when I was too late,
when there was no more need for any emergency duty
because the child was dying
when I came into the room.
So I felt so helpless.
In the mid 1990s, natural disasters
and government mismanagement,
created a famine that killed
up to three million people,
about 10 percent of North Korea's population.
Taking place in the heart of prosperous East Asia,
it was one of the worst famines of the century.
Today, nearly 40 percent of North Korean
children remain chronically malnourished.
The average 7-year-old boy in North
Korea is nearly 8 inches shorter
and 22 pounds lighter than
his brother in South Korea.
I'd say the damage to
his bones is permanent.
They're called
"the stunted generation".
It's a tragic situation and it's extraordinary
because same race,
same people, same basic diet.
That's all malnutrition.
Reluctant to ask for help from the outside world,
Kim Jong Il has expelled aid workers.
Over time, he has isolated the
country from much of the world,
even cutting off communications
with his neighbors to the South.
This room on the DMZ
is one of the few places set up for meetings
between the North and South Koreans.
One door opens to the South,
and the other to the North.
They hold hands to keep from
being pulled over the border.
Both sides have access.
But despite only being
separated by a pane of glass,
a meeting is hard to come by.
Simply trying to get a message across the border,
reveals how much relations have broken down.
Today, the joint U.S.-South Korean forces,
have a message to pass to their counterparts
only a few meter away in the North.
A telephone hotline is supposed
to connect the two sides.
They use a 1962 Russian crank phone,
contributed by the North Koreans in the 1980s,
to ring up their neighbors to the North.
Apparently, it's not a good
day to call North Korea.
But there is a fool-proof method
to get their message across.
Pick up the phone!
We have a message to pass.
We have a message to pass
and we'll be reading it.
To: Senior Colonel Kwak Yong-Hun,
Korean People's Army.
Subject: remains repatriation.
The South Korean forces have found
the body of a North Korean soldier
who was washed downstream after a recent storm.
...In accordance with paragraph, thirteen foxtrot...
They want to repatriate this body
along with more than 50 Korean War remains
they believe belong to the North.
...you failed to respond to our
proposals to meet on 26 July...
They've tried once before to reach
the North Koreans over this issue.
...I propose to meet you in the Military
Armistice Commission Conference Room
at 1400 hours to arrange the
repatriation of all these remains.
Signed Colonel John W. Towers,
Secretary of the United Nations...
But today, again, the only response is silence.
Evidently, the North Koreans respond
only when Kim Jong Il tells them to.
And up till now, for us, communication with
our minders has been difficult as well.
Making the case that it's
part of our medical research,
I've been pushing our minders for a while
to let us go to the home of a blind patient.
Much to my surprise, they suddenly agree.
The blind woman lives in a sixth floor
apartment in the heart of Pyongyang.
Since I'm told I'm the only
American in the country,
I feel lucky, but a bit surprised that the
minders are willing to take me here.
Oh, what a beautiful home!
There are six government officials
watching our every move.
But it's still a rare chance to see
inside a real North Korean home.
Like others in Pyongyang,
this is a privileged family.
The woman lives here with
four of her family members,
including her two granddaughters.
The first thing I notice was that
there weren't any family pictures,
just image after image of the
Dear Leader and his father.
- Of all their pictures,
which is your favorite picture?
- Every picture is our favorite.
- Of course, every picture,
absolutely.
And once again, we were warned to
photograph the Dear Leader carefully.
- But this is not true.
- So from here up?
- No, no, no.
- What happens if it's only half?
- What happens?
Why not?
No?
Oh, okay.
But we weren't supposed to ask why.
We were supposed to sit down and be
entertained by the granddaughter.
We wanted to talk to people, but under
the watchful eye of the minders,
this is what we got.
Wow.
That's amazing.
Finally, we sat down with the family,
and asked a few questions.
- How difficult is life for
your mother without sight?
The son-in-law answered without missing a beat.
- The most difficult thing for my mother-in-law
is not being able to see, Kim Jong Il,
the Dear Leader.
- Why do you want to see this supreme leader
so much, so bad?
- My children and I live happily
due to the honor of the Great Leader,
so I want to see him,
even a glimpse of him, so I can thank him.
She was obviously moved,
but what surprised me was so was everyone else.
This party official is crying.
Even this government minder.
As I listened to her, I started to cry.
If our nation and leader didn't exist
we might as well be dead.
My father was killed,
so I was raised in the arms of our Dear Leader,
and now I'm a Party Member.
- Uh, I just wonder,
can the Great Leader do anything wrong?
- What?
Can the Great Leader do anything wrong?
Is there anything wrong?
Or he's always, what he says is, is magical?
- I couldn't understand.
- Okay...
I think he genuinely didn't understand my question.
It seemed there wasn't even vocabulary
to question the Dear Leader.
- North Korea is a very small country.
How did the Great Leader defend it
against big powers like America?
- Even though North Korea is small,
we serve the greatest leader in the world.
We have a strong arm of unity,
which is stronger than America's atomic bombs.
America has no idea how to deal with us.
This is all because we have General Kim Jong-Il
as the leader of our nation.
- It helps to have nuclear weapons,
doesn't it?
As the conversation wound down,
I wondered where did North Korea's willingness
to face down the entire world come from?
- Our country's unity is stronger than
a nuclear weapon, so we're not afraid.
How did this powerful mindset take hold?
North Korea's defiant stance
toward the rest of the world
stems from a philosophy created
by Kim Il Sung, called Juche.
The Juche philosophy basically means
"up yours" to the outside world.
We can make everything ourself,
we don't need you.
And from an outsider's perspective,
it's a peculiar thing.
Why make such a big deal out of being independent?
Your people are starving,
you've got no economy,
you've got no trade.
But in the Korean context,
it has a profound resonance,
because Korean history is one of invasion
and all sorts of abuse from major powers.
So the North Koreans turned
this history around
and said we're not going to take it anymore.
And for Koreans, there is a very profound thrill
that somebody would have the guts
to stand up and be like that.
Kim Il Sung used Juche ideology to
run North Korea for half a century,
and to transform himself into
the father figure of the nation.
He ruled with an iron fist
and wielded absolute power.
The Great Leader's hearse is approaching.
When Kim Il Sung died in 1994, he
left behind a traumatized nation.
The Great Leader, is this true?
Are you leaving without us?
His son, Kim Jong Il, took power in the
world's first communist dynastic handover.
Over the years, Kim Jong Il
has used the Juche philosophy
to unify his people in opposition
to all things foreign,
especially during times of hardship, like famine.
But personally, he indulges in luxurious imports.
He has a 20,000-title private movie collection,
a fleet of more than 100 imported limousines,
and at one point was the largest single
customer of Hennessy cognac in the world.
Glory to the People's Republic Army.
Still, he uses the Juche ideology of self-reliance
to justify his rule and crush all dissent.
And one way he's held on to power is
through the use of concentration camps
to strike fear into the hearts of the people.
In North Korea Places like this, a 31 mile by 25
mile-long work camp known simply as "number 22",
are scattered throughout the country.
Camps can be the size of small cities.
Number 22 reportedly holds up to 50,000 people,
and many who enter, don't leave alive.
Defector Ahn Myong Chol
was a guard at number 22.
He escaped through China, and is one of the few
guards to tell his story to the outside world.
Though satellites provide the
only photographs of his camp
Ahn remembers every detail.
When we were educated as guards, we were told
not to think of the prisoners as humans.
The moment you enter a North Korean prison camp,
you're no longer a human being.
If you think you're a human being,
there's no way you can survive in the camps.
Ahn saw his fellow guards beat and even
shoot prisoners for minor offenses,
like searching for mice to eat.
Food was always scarce.
I remember seeing kids fighting over a
corn kernel they found inside cow dung.
A cow had eaten corn and the
children fought over it
and eventually washed it in the water and ate it.
Camp 22 is a "family camp".
The people there didn't actually
commit crimes themselves,
but were the family members
of those who allegedly did.
20,000 worker mine
If a North Korean citizen simply complained
to a friend about that month's rations
or did anything else that could be
seen as questioning the regime,
his entire extended family,
children, parents, cousins,
could end up in Camp 22 for life.
school for brainwashing
interrogation room
The people didn't know how
or why they ended up there.
But they ended up being worked
to death or dying from disease,
without stepping outside of that
place for their entire life.
The camps are a key part of the
regime's successful hold on power.
North Korea can't exist without prison camps.
It will collapse without them.
The most important thing North Korea
needs is a means to frighten its people.
Camps, especially those like number 22,
which house the families of the accused,
keep people loyal to the regime.
And when someone tries to defect from the country,
their family often faces death or imprisonment.
Despite the cost, many people are so desperate,
they try to escape anyway.
Most go through China, which shares
a long border with North Korea.
For years, especially after
the famine in the late '90s,
missionaries and paid smugglers
have led desperate people out.
Like this woman who traveled under cover
of darkness with her baby into Mongolia.
Tens of thousands of North Korean refugees
like her have come through China.
While some continue on to South Korea or elsewhere,
those who remain in China live marginal existences,
and are under constant threat of repatriation,
back to North Korea.
Though thousands have snuck out
of North Korea through China,
only a handful has successfully
crossed the DMZ into freedom.
One of the few to escape directly to South Korea
is a 25-year-old student
living in Seoul, Joo Sung Il.
I personally believe that I made it through
with the guidance of an invisible hand,
because of God's will.
Joo used to be a guard in charge
of a propaganda broadcasting booth,
on the North Korean side of the DMZ.
One night a soldier working for
Joo broadcast the wrong message:
He told the enemy that the next
day was a holiday in the North.
If I had stayed, I would have been under great
threat from the North Korean government.
I believed my chances
of survival were zero.
Before the authorities arrested him, Joo and his
friend tried to escape the only way they could,
across the DMZ.
They drugged their fellow guards
and came to a series of deadly electric fences
used to keep people inside North Korea.
Joo thought he had a plan to divert the
current long enough for them to squeeze by.
But he wasn't sure it would work.
Even though I had worked on electric fences before,
I wasn't confident that I had mastered the skills,
so I felt scared.
Joo assembles a special plastic pole
he stole from the equipment shed.
He takes off his clothes so he can
slip under the fence more easily
and wraps the end of the pole, in case
any electricity flows to the handle.
Joo needs to hook the pole onto the electric fences
in order to temporarily divert
the electricity into the ground.
One slip can be disastrous.
Once the electric flow is cut off, there's only
about two to three minutes that it can hold.
After that, you can easily
burn to death on the fences,
so we had to be extremely careful.
He uses wooden stakes to push up the fence.
I could still hear the electric flow in the fence.
The pole a couple of meters in front
of me sounded like it was crying out,
almost as if it was going to
burst soon, at any moment.
On the other side, he motions
for his friend to join him.
My junior was very nervous and frightened,
because he had no previous
experience with electric fences.
At first, everything looks okay.
But halfway through, disaster.
Full power returns to the fence.
Joo can only watch.
Seeing someone who set out with you die in
front of your eyes, is just a horrible thing.
It felt like my own body was breaking down.
That memory follows me around like a nightmare.
But Joo continued onward.
Step by step, he picked his way across one
of the largest mine fields on the planet.
Finally, he crossed into South Korea
and surrendered at a guard post.
For me, I had a privileged life in that society.
But I don't yearn for it anymore.
There's one core value that is missing there,
which I think is freedom.
I can say that I don't miss the North,
because it doesn't have freedom.
But there was a huge cost to be paid.
When asked what happened to his family
as a result of his leaving North Korea,
he replied ominously.
I'd rather not talk about it.
It's our final evening in North Korea
and Dr. Ruit works late into the night to
reach his goal of operating on 1000 patients.
He believes in humanitarian engagement
with all the countries of the world,
whatever their politics.
The North Korean people have
two eyes, like you and me,
they have a mouth, and they have teeth, you know.
And it's for the world in general to understand
that in North Korea we have a lot
of people who need our love.
If all goes well, tomorrow the patients
will have their vision restored,
but how they actually see the world
may be different from what we expect.
At the hospital, the cataract patients are
waiting for Dr. Ruit to remove their bandages.
He's achieved his goal of operating
on more than 1000 patients.
But they still don't know
if they'll be able to see.
Most have been blind for years,
some in one eye,
others in both.
Dr. Ruit is optimistic.
We did a little more than 1000 surgeries
and all with very good results, no infections.
That aspect I feel okay.
If everything goes well, as soon
as the bandages are removed,
people will be able to see immediately.
The minder gives us one last warning to shoot
only the full image of the Dear Leader.
The moment of truth comes first
for a 23-year-old woman.
She's come with her father.
And has been completely blind for years.
Ask her to open her eyes.
Can she touch my nose?
Ask her where is her father?
- Dad!
- Can you see?
- Yes! I can see very well.
- It's all because of the Great General.
We must bow to our Great General for this.
- Yes, Dad.
- Thank you, Great General!
- I want to show my gratitude to our Great General!
Thank you very, very much,
our Great General Kim Jong Il.
Thank you very, very much
our Great General Kim Jong Il.
We praise you!
We praise you!
We praise you!
We praise you!
Next is a 35-year-old woman,
who was blind in both eyes.
Ask her to open her eyes, please.
- Can you see?
- Yes, I can see.
Great General, I will work harder at the salt mines
to get more salt to bring you more happiness.
Thank you very much!
Now we spot the grandmother we had visited at home.
She's been waiting for years
to see the Dear Leader.
And she's not disappointed.
Thank you!
Thank you!
Each time a patient regained their sight,
we were amazed to see them direct their
gratefulness toward the Dear Leader.
Great Leader, I wish you great health.
How kind you are to hold
an old woman like me in your arms.
Despite the hardships, he receives
credit for everything that happens here.
We praise you!
As I watched hundreds of people do and
say virtually the same thing over,
and over,
and over again.
I wondered which people had genuine faith,
and which were acting out of fear?
I swear that my children will be faithful
to our Great Leader and Great General
for generations to come!
And, finally, it hit me.
We praise you.
Here, after generations of absolute
rule and complete indoctrination,
there may not be a difference
between true belief, and true fear.
With these eyes that I've received,
I will grab a gun
and kill every one of the American enemies
and terminate them from this earth!
North Korea is a place ruled by an absolute
dictator who now possesses nuclear weapons.
It's no longer possible to regard
the country as an isolated anomaly.
What happens here in the Hermit Kingdom
can directly touch everyone in the world.
Because you brought us the light and your greatness,
I swear that I will serve you
and be faithful for generations to come!
Great General Kim Jong Il,
We praise you!
We praise you!
We praise you!