They’ve been told basically nothing. No surprises here.
Either that, or he’s worried about revealing knowledge he’s not supposed to have. North Korea heavily controls information that its citizens are allowed to have about places outside the country, because if people start to believe that life is better elsewhere, they’ll eventually revolt.
So if he admitted to knowing more about South Korea than he is supposed to, and then word of that admission got back to his superiors or other government officials, they’d realize that he and likely his family must have somehow come upon restricted knowledge and start punishing them to try to find a source, if one even exists.
That’s why I can’t believe interviews like this. The guy is a POW from a country where anything less than fierce, undying loyalty is met with you and your entire family being rounded up into camps. It’s hard to believe someone like that would answer any sort of questions without being coerced or being faked.
There was some kind of cut after he was asked that question; I would think that’s what’s going on
– All I know is that South Korea has fewer mountains than North Korea."
Wow. What a flex I guess.
I once watched a 5h long video about movies from NK and all the movies made it pretty clear, that mountains have a very important stance in the story-telling of Korea and the wider Manchuria. Especially Mount Paektu plays an important part in the myth to the point that Kim Jong Il said he was born there (he was not). People get really impressed when people come from a mountains regardless on the culture it seems (e.g. Moses).
So this soldier telling this fact, is most likely trying to paint SK as inferior. SK didnt had access to Mount Paektu since the 50s and didn’t keep retelling that story and this soldier ate that Paektu propaganda in the north with a spoons and thinks that makes him/his nation better (it doesn’t).
That whole video is great and shows a thorough attempt at gathering and understanding the cultural significance of such trash art.
They really need to move him to a south Korean “concentration camp” - of course such a thing doesn’t exist, but a few guards who bring him with them while doing other actives - showing him what life is really like until one day he asks “what if I don’t want to go home” and the guards hand him papers and walk away.
Do peoplr realize that whenever a north Korean speaks, even though you can’t see it, they have a gun to their head and the heads of all their family members…?
I’d take everything he says with a big grain of salt.
Treated like drones, only given the minimum amount of information necessary to operate.
I wonder if his family is in danger now his identity has been revealed.
