21 Jul Journalist Goes Undercover In North Korea To Reveal What Life There Is Really Like

Living in the West’s conception of liberal democracy makes it difficult to understand or even empathise with any aspect of North Korea’s totalitarian regime. This, of course, is made even more complex when we factor in the dozens of reports that accuse the hermit state of a string of systematic human rights abuses. Certainly, the disparity of wealth in the polarising country is something that western media makes sure to drive home. We often hear about how the majority of the country lives in crippling poverty whilst Kim Jong Un and his upper circle enjoy the rewards of running a nominally communist state. North Korea, then, presents a unique threat to western democracy as their values stand in stark antithesis to ours.

North Korea delights in it’s secrecy. Citizens cannot travel abroad and have little contact, if any at all with tourists. Further, the people who do visit the country are only allowed to see a carefully curated list of destinations and are forbidden to visit the outskirts of the country where the majority of the population live in questionable conditions. It’s consequently difficult to even begin to understand such a nation without visiting it yourself, but luckily for us, one journalist went undercover to shed new light on it’s controversial regime…

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