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Human Beings Originate from Korea, and Other Totalitarian Myths
Epoch Times Staff
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| In this photo taken on Dec. 28, 2011 mourners react as a car Kim Jong-Il's body passes by during the funeral procession in Pyongyang. (Kyodo News/AFP/Getty Images) |
Bai Xiaoyi, a graduate from the Department of Korean Language at Peking University, was one of them. She recounted her school life in North Korea to the Chutian Metropolis Daily on Jan. 17.
She recalls that her Korean roommate, Ji Xuejing, had once excitedly told her of a “blissful dream” when waking up one morning. Ji said their “great leader,” General Kim, had given her guidance in a dream, and that they were going to overcome the difficulties in their research.
“The feeling is just like seeing light in the dark night!” Ji said.
Bai was quite taken aback by Ji’s enthusiasm; Ji’s father was a scientist, and Ji herself was engaged in nuclear physics research. A few months after this incident, in October 2006, North Korea conducted its first nuclear test.
There are two universities in North Korea which receive Chinese overseas students, Kim II Sung University and Kim Hyong Jik University. Kim Hyong Jik is the name of Kim II Sung’s father. The universities arrange Korean students to be the roommates of the Chinese overseas students.
Zhao Song (pseudonym) was a student of the Department of Korean Language in one College in Beijing. He studied in North Korea from April to October, 2011.
“Those Korean roommates were not common people. Most of them were from the ‘orthodox communist’ families,” said Zhao.
Many overseas Chinese students only talk about language problems with their roommates, but Zhao often attempted to explore other topics, like their views of the outside world. But his Korean classmates studiously avoided such discussions.
The way they avoid it “was funny,” he recalls. “They often said that they wanted to make a phone call outside, but would not come back.”
In the memories of the Chinese students, most North Korean roommates were proud, confident, and polite. Zhao said that his classmates often told him proudly that it was thanks to the great leader General Kim, that Korean people live a happy life.
The North Korean students at the universities often believed that their leader had created every happiness in North Korea. And when something didn’t fit the blueprint, like a shortage of goods, for example, Korean students would solemnly tell their Chinese peers that it was because of “the harm inflicted by U.S. imperialism.”
Bai remembered that their history books said, “Mankind originated in the Korean Peninsula.”
The lesson about the “Birth of the Great Leader,” alleges supernormal phenomena before Kim Il-sung’s birth.
When Zhao studied in North Korea, a Chinese student who studied at the Kim Hyong Jik University photographed a ragged old woman at the market. He was immediately taken away by the security guard, and his camera was confiscated. The student was released only after the Chinese embassy intervened.
The group of overseas Chinese returned to Beijing on Oct. 19, 2011. Two months later, North Korean leader Kim Jong II died.
After the death of Kim Jong Il, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Jan. 16, that “A mother bear and two cubs, which should have been in hibernation, walked out of the woods. They cried sorrowfully on the road that Kim Jong II often walked on.”
The KCNA article goes on to say, “A bird was frozen to death on the branches near the spot that Kim Jong II took photos with the guides when he inspected that area.”
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