A 4th-gen South Korean in Japan (Zainichi Kankokujin) who doesn’t speak Korean and thinks Japanese & Koreans “all look the same” creates an anime

"True North" retells the horrors of North Korean human rights abuses through narrative fiction and animation
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2/If there's to be reform in DPRK's prisons there should first be normalization of US-DPRK relations and a peace deal that ends the Korean War. "True North" appears to portray DPRKers as the good guys and the WPK as the bad guy. Shimizu's tunnel vision focus on prison camps is
3/lopsided b/c it ignores how DPRK's socialist system takes care of its citizens. The views of Shimizu and most re DPRK's prison camps parallel US Democrats irrational hatred for President Trump. Both Trump and Kim Jong Un have made their countries safer & stronger economically.
4/And b/c sh#t rolls downhill, if Pyongyang ever critiques Shimizu's anime (and doesn't like it), it's likely that some DPRK prison camp inmates will suffer more at the hands of prison camp guards. They can thank Zainichi Kankokujin Shimizu for that.

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North Korean students learning rock music and having fun w/ an iPad. Oh the times they are a changing.

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@nknewsorg The creator of this anime is a 4th-gen South Korean in Japan (Zainichi Kankokujin) who doesn’t speak Korean and thinks Japanese & Koreans “all look the same”. If you want to lose the bias against the amazing North Korean people who love their country,
@nknewsorg 2/system and socialist ideology watch my videos to realize that behind the closed door/wall of Western propaganda is a progressive people who love music, fine arts & sports and have embraced and assimilated rock music into their culture.
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2/"cooperative, funny, intelligent and all that. Probably even much more than some of us.” He then creates the above👆animation film based on testimony of 4 NK defectors.

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“What’s good is bad. What’s bad is good. You’ll find out when you reach the top. You’re on the bottom.”
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Most DPRKers love their country. Half of America hates the USA.

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