Inside Japan's Mini North Korea | Unreported World

It makes me so sad to think about how excited that lady must of been when she boarded the boat to North Korea. She grew up getting told it was a paradise and she was finally getting to go to this paradise, only to find the opposite. She had no idea the 40 years of pain that was waiting for her when she boarded that boat. She must of felt so betrayed when she arrived and found the truth.

I found it quite interesting that every time the reporter asked about human rights abuses in North Korea, nobody denied his accusation - they all just pointed the finger elsewhere saying "what about XYZ?" as if it's somehow okay to violate human rights as long as you're not the only one doing it.

Imagine living in Japan and being loyal to N Korea while prospering in a capitalist country. How blind do you have to be.

They seem to be more comfortable speaking Japanese than Korean. And as a native Korean speaker, I can't help but notice that even the teachers in the Korean school seem to be speaking a distorted variant of Korean, which sounds very foreign and sometimes incomprehensible to Korean ears. At one point, when the young girls were answering in Korean, I had to look at the subtitles to understand what they were saying, because their pronunciation was all over the place. The students also generally had a poor command of it. I feel sad for them, honestly. North Koreans, who strongly value racial purity, will never accept them as true Koreans. If they actually decide to move to North Korea for some reason, they'll probably face discriminations worse than they did in Japan. They don't consider Japan their home. Yet they are blissfully unaware of the fact that North Korea definitely does not want them, and that they are already more Japanese than Korean.

One aspect that raises questions for me is the fact that a group of North Korean people in Japan openly support North Korea's ideology and dictatorship without facing any consequences. They can enjoy a secure and materially rich life in a democratic country, demand voting rights without obtaining Japanese citizenship, and proudly express loyalty to the North Korean government. Meanwhile, the people who truly suffer the consequences of the regime are those living in North Korea. However, I can somewhat understand that these individuals may feel alienated in Japan and might need some sort of illusion to tell themselves they are not disconnected from everything, as they seek a sense of belonging and connection to their homeland.

This is so weird. Being brainwashed while living in North Korea where you have no access to information is totally understandable. But being brainwashed while living in Japan, one of the most developed countries in the world is just shocking.

Although I am Japanese, I have always wondered about issues related to Korean schools. In Korean schools, the Kim family is worshipped and North Korea is taught as the best Korea. However, they live in Japan and have free access to all kinds of information. Of course, they can use the Internet without censorship. Under these circumstances, how can they believe that North Korea is a wonderful country?

This is an insult to the countless people who have risked their lives to make it out of North Korea, or those that died trying.

As a South Korean, I am only surprised by Japan govt's 'generosity' toward such organization. I wonder more about how the government can allow such schools to exist. If schools in South Korea teach such content, everyone who cooperates with it will face criminal charges and the school will be closed.

I don't understand why you're seeking funds from the Japanese government while still teaching about Korea and refusing to take down the Kim photo. The simple solution is for you to leave Japan, as it's normal anywhere else that if you want funding, you need to follow the standards and rules set by the country's government. No country will fund schools that treat the land they're standing on as an enemy and a dictator's country as their homeland, as it would be a waste of funds and resources

They should return to their beautiful homeland of North Korea. Why do they stubbornly continue to live in Japan? That's the biggest contradiction.

私日本に住んでいるインド人ですが、この動画見てすごくびっくりしてるんですよ。 こんなに北朝鮮が好きやったら、もうずっとそこに住めばいいと思うんだけどね。 レポーターさんは何回も人権のことを聞こうとしたんだけど、それに答えず他のところを言い出したりして、そして日本のことも言ったりして完全に嫌ってるでしょ日本を、、、それでも住み続けてるっていうのはわけ分からない

I, as a Japanese, am all against the racism in Japan towards Korean people living in Japan. I'm all for living together and creating a community, which unite us to form a new community. But, although I don't hate people of North Korea, I can not get behind what they are doing in those communities. I do not hate them as people but I can not get behind on their beliefs. Praising a regime that has kidnapped so many children and has constantly been shooting missles over Japan while expecting us to like them as what they believe is nearly impossible. They obviously know that the propaganda there is fake, otherwise they would've gone back already like many people in the past did and suffered as a result. I don't mind them living as Koreans, in fact I think it's beautiful that we can have diversity like that, but I can't get behind the fact they worship the ruthless leader of the North and expect us to not have negative feelings about them.

What I'm getting is these are some very privileged Japan-born North Koreans who feel like outsiders in Japan. And when they visit their "homeland", they were provided with a very comfortable and welcoming visit, so that they were not exposed to the hardships of regular N Korean people. This makes them cling to their tight-knit community and defend it as well as their leaders, even if it means turning a blind eye to the human rights abuse in their "homeland".

I'm Japanese living in Europe, and I'm not a racist. However, I'm totally against for subsidizing North Korean schools being existed in Japan which are close to North Korea. The city where I used to live has a North Korean school, and I made a femal friend who went to the school. We met in an afterschool activity school, and she said if students talk Japanese inside the North Korean school, teachers are mad at them and scold them because Japan is a hostile country. I still remember that I was totally shocked to hear about it. She also visited North Korea because of her school activity. If North Korens really like their country, please move to North Korea.

This video makes me so sad and angry at the same time. As a person who is living under the other big dictatorship, it baffles me how people cannot look past the propaganda, but at the same time it makes me so sad that these people believe this propaganda and are taking the freedom they have in Japan for granted. So many people from their homeland die every year just attempting to have half of their freedom.

I am surprised by how generous Japanese government is for letting this kind of school exist on Japanese soil, that is really weird

"What we saw in North Korea is quite different from what is reported, so it's not correct to call it brainwashing" This is about as narrow-minded as one can get. Every trip to North Korea is carefully planned by the regime to not show people the horrors that are going on there. Have they ever wondered why they're not allowed to roam freely around the country?

I'm very confused, if they love North Korea so much, why don't they just leave Japan and move back to their motherland? I'm neither Japanese nor Korean, so I think I'm unbiased on this topic. I can kind of understand why some of the Japanese people are against these schools, because they are teaching radical views, or even anti-Japanese propaganda to their students. North Korea is an enemy of the state, why should Japanese people tolerate such a school existing on their soil?

That preppy korean kid doesn't even know his cute little hairstyle would be forbidden in his homeland. Wonder how long he'd last in the camps.