For the truth about a ‘socialist utopia,’ ask a – Latest News
Bizarrely, 62% of younger Americans maintain a “favorable view” of socialism.
How can they be so ignorant?
Socialism has been tried by heaps of international locations.
It’s failed.
It at all times fails.
China prospered considerably solely after it legalized some personal enterprise.
Perhaps at present’s youngsters are ignorant as a result of they’re too younger to recollect the fall of the Soviet Union.
They ought to have a look at North Korea — the final “socialist utopia.”
I not too long ago interviewed Charles Ryu, who escaped North Korea and made it to China.
“It felt like getting into a time machine and fast forwarding 50 years . . . 24-hour running electricity . . . All the food that I can eat . . . It was life-changing.”
“We Americans think of China as a surveillance state,” I level out, “They’ll punish you if you say the wrong thing. But for you, it was freedom?”
“[The] Chinese government does watch your every move . . . But in North Korea, it’s 100 times worse.”
He says North Koreans are so remoted that they consider even absurd propaganda.
Ryu was taught that “[Dictator] Kim Jong Il . . . got mad when he learned what Japan had done to North Korea. He grabbed a calligraphy pen . . . and painted over Japan. As soon as he did, Japan started getting hurricanes and storms . . . [We believed he was] some sort of God.”
Ryu’s time in China was short-lived.
Someone informed the Chinese officers that he was North Korean. China despatched him back.
North Korea then punished him for escaping.
“I was beaten . . . fed only 150 kernels of corn. One morning I was marching . . . I saw dry vomit on the road and was so hungry that I got on my hands and knees and began picking the rice out of the dry vomit.”
“I didn’t stop . . . until the beating from the guards was too unbearable.”
Nine months later, he was free of jail labor as a result of “I lost so much weight that I was a worthless worker.”
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Eventually Ryu escaped again, sneaking previous guards into the Yalu River.
“I carried a bucket pretending that I was getting water. As soon as nobody was looking, I quietly waded in.”
“In the middle of the river, I slipped on a rock and I let out a gasp. A flood of light was on my back.”
“The guard was screaming at me to turn back. He said that he would shoot me if I didn’t turn back, but at that point, I knew I was dead either way . . . and I kept [pushing] ahead.”
This time when he made it to China, Ryu averted seize.
He discovered a broker who secured him passage to Thailand, the place UN officers granted him political asylum. Then they despatched him to security in America.
Today, Ryu makes use of his experiences to attempt to educate Americans about North Korea and the risks of socialism. On his YouTube channel he holds a signal that reads, “Ask a North Korean.”
To Americans who reward socialism, Ryu says: “Just go to North Korea for 10 days and you’ll know how bad it is . . . You don’t really know you have it good.”
Ryu is barely in a position to speak freely about his experiences in North Korea as a result of he has no instant household left there.
Most North Koreans who escape the nation can not.
“If you talk bad about . . . the regime, that’s the highest crime you can commit . . . Your entire three generations of your family will be sent to political prison camp where you will never get out.”
Ryu is thrilled to be in America.
Here he was in a position to go to highschool, discover a job that he enjoys and marry.
“I feel like my life is complete now because all the choices that I can have . . . I [can] travel anywhere I want . . . eat whatever I want . . . do whatever I want in America — a capitalist country. In North Korea, that’s not possible.”
I’m glad I dwell in America.
I can freely criticize our authorities.
At least, thus far.
John Stossel is the creator of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”
