Dystopian North Korea

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As Americans, we live our lives without having to worry about surveillance cameras watching us, there are facilities in every state to make sure no civilian starves to death, and we are known as the land of the free. A dystopian society is a place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror. There is now little to no hope in the eyes of all North Koreans. Their leader has made enemies with nearly the whole world and won’t let them leave the country unless they have a valid reason to help the country. North Korea is a modern dystopia as they constantly monitor everyone with surveillance cameras, dehumanize each and every civilian and give them no freedoms as they are forced to stand still and let it happen. North Korea uses thousands of security cameras in order to keep track of all their civilians and prevent them from escaping the country. North Koreans feel as though they cannot say nor do anything to people even if they are their close friends. It is easy to get stabbed in the back as cameras watch you’re every move. You can’t trust anyone when people are starving and will do anything to get food. A south Korean newspaper stated, “North Korea purchased 16,420 closed-circuit surveillance cameras from China in the first 11 months of last year as the regime stepped up the monitoring of its own people” (Ryall). On top of those cameras purchased in the past 11 months, they already had 85,570 purchased in the past three years. All of these cameras are making the cost run up to nearly € 6.22 million dollars, according to a South Korean Chosun llbo Newspaper. (Ryall). When having over 100,000 cameras purchased in the past five years, North Koreans constantly feel fearful of the government even when they would normally have to feel paranoid. In addition, the country of North Korea is having thousands of cameras

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