Reverse Propaganda

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By Ben Freeman, Photo By Sam Wheadon, Illustrations Courtesy of AIMSKOREA.ORG Meet Noh, disseminator of subversive anti-North Korean materials.

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Bbi-ra Excerpt from “I Sell My Daughter for 100 Won”
Wherever there are people
There is the sound of gunshots.

Today in front of the public
Another someone is executed.

You should never feel compassion.
If dead, you have to kill once again, with rage.

Left unsaid from the declaration
In front of the bang-bang of gunshots
How so is it that today
the silence of the people feels heavier?

Stealing a sack of rice,
The criminal was killed with 90 gunshots.
His occupation
a farmer.
These drawings are based on firsthand accounts of North Korean refugees who were interviewed after arriving safely in South Korea. A North Korean officer forces a man to eat cow shit.

This guy is made to do a handstand while being kicked in the stomach. The image above depicts the hearing of a pregnant North Korean defector who was later subjected to a forced abortion. What follows is a letter from a 12-year-old who escaped Prison 16 in North Hamkyungdo, Hwasung-gun, and a note written by the defectors who sent the message over the border.

This child is now going to school in South Korea in freedom, waiting for the day when North Korea is freed.

People of North Korea! They say that the newborn has not the option of choosing the country that it’s born into.

If the people of North Korea have to endure this kind of suffering just to be born in North Korea, what kind of an unfair world are we living in?

People of North Korea, we are people born to be loved.