[imText1]“You can’t imagine my resentment of “the Father of the nation”, Kim Il Sung, whose revolutionary history I was forced to memorize In order to attend university.”– A defector
“No way!” In South Korea we are free to pursue difficult subjects of our own choosing. We define our own life purposes without “assistance” from authority.”—A Student from South Korea
This dialogue was part of an April 6th program produced by ORNK in which North and South Korean students discussed democracy. ORNK plans to highlight the differences in the lives and political systems of South and North Koreans and to foster an exchange of ideas about democracy. The program was produced by students in the South who arrived from North Korea. On the 5th, four students recorded their thoughts on absolute dictatorship, socialism, and their relevance to South Korean relations. Jung Young Hee, a freshman at Yonsei University, was surprised to learn of the realities about which student defectors spoke.
Ryu Hyun Soo, the secretary general of Youth and Students Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea moderated the program. He said “we are showing North Korean citizens the real differences between the North and the South—differences directly addressed in conversations with student defectors.
ORNK views the student conversations as opportunities for North Korean citizens to contemplate and analyze their system and manner of existence. ORNK will release this program for 10 minutes at 11 PM (local time) every Sunday through short waves, 7390KHs.
