North Korea, a village with an atomic bomb
Abdullah Naseri
Last night, it was reported in some news that the leader of North Korea died, but later it turned out that he is still alive, but in a dangerous condition. I believe that until someone has traveled to North Korea, they will not understand the dictatorship in this country. It is true that they say that the dictators are the hands of the people of that land rather than their own creation. In the era of reforms, I had just been appointed to the responsibility of reporting the news of the Islamic Republic, and the Deputy Asia and Pacific Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked me to make an official trip to North Korea, but I did not want to. The government does not accept the official invitation of North Korea, you should make a trip and accept their invitation. In any case, I traveled to Pyongyang with a delegation from Iran’s news agency and newspaper.
At the airport after being welcomed, all the delegation members except me were asked to hand over their cell phones and collect them on the way back when leaving the airport. It was interesting that the only satellite phone I had was in North Korea due to the unavailability of new technologies. I just realized that they were right that technology is not free in authoritarian countries and the government audits it. is in charge strongly.
They took us to a hotel with 70 (seventy) floors, there were us, three or four delegations and some Chinese people. In the lobby of the hotel, the sorrows of the world came to you. rooms to stay There was no internet and no entertainment other than the official government television. You went left and right, all the televisions, hotels and the city were full of pictures of the country’s leader. There was no technology there, but the people were all connected. For example, the traffic police, who were mostly women, would allocate a certain amount of time to each street at intersections to control and regulate the routes, with a full movement of the hand show, even if there was no car. The Korean guide told exactly this.
In those days (less than 20 years ago), North Korea’s only connection with the world was a train and two weekly flights to Beijing and vice versa. This remote country, which is called the atomic village of Zibande, has cultivated a people who are like the walking dead. A poor person is a silent and blind house in which neither knowledge is a meaningful word nor the world is an intelligible word. The military museum of the Korean War and the old house of its late leader are worth seeing. You can neither see a dynamic cultural center nor wander around the city and chat with people.
What was very beautiful for me was visiting the border of two Koreas. Two completely different worlds on both sides, one with the stylish border guards of the red karlap combat style and the other with quasi-Cossack overcoats with the yellow face of poverty, the difference in guns and buildings is significant. I remembered a story: one day in the summer of 1967, after the acceptance of Resolution 598 by Iran, the international directors of the Ministry of Culture and Guidance were sitting in the office of the then Deputy Director of International Affairs (Mr. Tajzadeh) and we talked about the end of the war and the cooperation of the three governments of Syria, Libya and Algeria. It was with Iran. He discussed the dependence of these three governments on the superpower of the East or the Soviet Union
The late Kiyomarth Saberi, also known as Gol Agha, made a subtle point that if a country is going to be dependent on one of the two superpowers, it is wise to choose America. From the Soviet Union is the same as stupidity.
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