"In your opinion does the pool of people, who fled North Korea due to dissatisfaction, as sources create a bias view of North Korean government in the book?"
In my oppinion, the North Korean defectors, who are used for their primary source information throughout the book, are the best sources available for the occurances in North Korea. Any outside persons who are able to enter North Korea are swiftly toured through the government's "showroom" cities. Any information that any news reporter or third party source may come accross while in North Korea whould be clearly skewed by the North Korean Governement. Interviews with North Korean government members themselves would be equally unsuccesful in their degree of bias. Their regime, in ways comparable to Orwell's 1984, works hard to alter their perception in the eyes of their people and other nations. South Koreans are are rather clueless to the occurances over their border as the result of Kim Il Sung's efforts. It is the North Korean citizens themselves who know firsthand of the attrocities of the North Korean governemnt. Their stories are brutally honest in a way which, in degrees of truthfullness, overcomes any bias that the North Koreans hold.
"In your opinion does the pool of people, who fled North Korea due to dissatisfaction, as sources create a bias view of North Korean government in the book?"
ReplyDeleteIn my oppinion, the North Korean defectors, who are used for their primary source information throughout the book, are the best sources available for the occurances in North Korea. Any outside persons who are able to enter North Korea are swiftly toured through the government's "showroom" cities. Any information that any news reporter or third party source may come accross while in North Korea whould be clearly skewed by the North Korean Governement. Interviews with North Korean government members themselves would be equally unsuccesful in their degree of bias. Their regime, in ways comparable to Orwell's 1984, works hard to alter their perception in the eyes of their people and other nations. South Koreans are are rather clueless to the occurances over their border as the result of Kim Il Sung's efforts. It is the North Korean citizens themselves who know firsthand of the attrocities of the North Korean governemnt. Their stories are brutally honest in a way which, in degrees of truthfullness, overcomes any bias that the North Koreans hold.