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North Korea on Parade |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Sheila McNulty |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 4,832 Words, 28,128 Characters |
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Thousands of children performed a flawless routine of splits, cartwheels, and back flips in alarmingly perfect formation to the beat of a revolutionary opera. As the last song ended, the girls and boys shouted, "We miss the smile of the Great Leader," and then each of them burst into tears. They quickly raced from the field to the deafening applause of a hundred thousand stony-faced North Koreans.
I felt sick to my stomach. I could not help thinking that the government had invited us to North Korea specifically to witness this daunting display of human conditioning, to flaunt its power over the people--a power that obviously could be marshaled against the outside world, should the international pressure against North Korea become too strong. A Japanese tourist was as disturbed as I was....
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..., and blue gymsuits danced, goose-stepped, and flipped on the field in front of them, not a single one out of step.
The North Koreans were clearly telling us they were prepared to continue marching, with Kim Jong Il now at the head of the line, to the commanding beat the Great Leader had drummed into their heads for decades in the world's most nightmarish undertaking in social engineering.
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