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" ... Young guerrilla girl Kumsuni delivers letters to comrades, and one day is caught by the police. When the policemen demand the girl disclose information about the guerillas, she spits into the faces of her interrogators. As the policemen drag Kumsuni to her execution, the heroic girl cries out 'Long Live General Kim Il Sung!'"

...Pre-teen boy Ri Kwang-ch'un is a member of a secret anti-Japanese children's organization. Along with others, he helps the "Red Guard uncles". However, one day policemen apprehend the boy. When the "bastards" torture the young patriot, Ri cuts off his own tongue in defiance. His last words are "Long Live the Korean Revolution!"

Even if one supports patriotic education of the younger generation, one is still likely to find such notions of slicing off one's own tongue, torture or execution to be much too disturbing and complicated to present to children. Yet the plots cited above are from comics published in Kkotpongori (Flower bud), a North Korean monthly magazine for kindergarden-aged children. The designated audience of the publication may be deduced by the types of logic puzzles included in each issue, such as: "Look at the pictures of a pig, a tractor and a bike. Which one moves faster?"

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My Comment: Does this indoctrination work? Guess what .... it does. My father grew up in the Ukraine during the famine of 1932-1933. He recalled how everyone in school had to sing praises to Stalin for the food that they had .... and they all believed it .... even though everyone was hungry. What changed his point of view was when he was exposed through pictures and news reports on the West. The newsreels talked about hard times and unrest, but what he saw were well fed and well dressed people .... driving cars .... and living in nice homes. This became the seeds of his resentment of the communist system .... a deep resentment that persisted with him until the day that he died. This is what I predict will happen in North Korea. When the North Koreans are exposed to what life is really like outside the hermit kingdom .... trust me .... there will be resentment and hate directed at the Kim family and the Communist system. And guess what .... the North Korean communists know that, and this is their biggest fear.