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Intro of North Korea
NORTH KOREA
"People who make calls on these smuggled phones can also face criminal charges, including treason if they contact someone in South Korea or other countries labeled as enemies." (Arnold Fang).
Taken by NASA
"The eeriest puzzle in the Hermit Kingdom just north of here is not where it hides its nukes, but where it hides its disabled people" (Nicolas D. Kristof).
Isolationism:
a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
The use of Isolationism demonstrated in both 1984 and the 21st North Korean Regime shows the domination of every aspect of their citizens' lives and the terrorization from within that allowed them to maintain power and control.
1984
1984
COUNTER
Although some people may say Kim Jung Un is a great dictator but he maintenance of control over his citizens is not justifiable.
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but we're storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.” (Orwell 220)
"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." (Orwell 236)
"His power in North Korea is so great that not only does no one dare criticize him, no one dares advise him. If you are too closely associated with the king, your head might someday share the same chopping block."
Kim Jung Un is able to maintain in control because he dominates his citizens lives and terrorizes them from within, leaving them with no choice but to follow his laws.
"Whole world-within-a-world" emphasizes the isolation of the proles from the rest of the state. Big Brother did not see the proles as a threat so they were left alone. The proles being isolated allowed them to have more abilities than those in the inner party. This shows that since the proles were isolated from the other parties they couldn't compare themselves to them.
CONCLUSION
The use of isolationism in both North Korea and 1984 is used to maintain control of citizens by controlling who they interact with, what they are open to, and what they think. 1984 shows us the isolationism between citizens and other states as well as citizens interactions with others. North Korea shows the isolationism between the people in the country with the 'outside' world and their interactions with people from "enemy countries".
Isolationism in 1984 and
the North Korea Regime