Random Things North Korean Schoolchildren Learn About The United States (12 items)

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  (#8) A Book Claims Americans Killed A Quarter Of The North Korean Population In A 52-Day Rampage

  There is a book in the Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities which claims American soldiers killed a quarter of North Korea’s population (then over 35,000 people) over the span of 52 days. The book was published by Pyongyang’s Foreign Languages Publishing House in 2009. The museum also houses skulls and bones from alleged victims of the war.
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  (#2) They Like To Play Games That Involve Smashing Americans To Death

  According to People for Successful COrean REunification (PSCORE), a non-profit behind the “Forced To Hate” educational report, North Korean children play a super fun game during their school’s field day. The game is called “Smash the foreign-nosed Americans to Death.” The report doesn’t get into the details of the game, but one could only imagine a whack-a-mole scenario. They have other violent games where America always ends up on the losing side.
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  (#3) Children Are Taught That General MacArthur Instructed Troops To Kill Koreans So They Could Have Their Women

  The North Korean propaganda book, The US Imperialists Started the Korean War, claims in order to incentivize his troops, General MacArthur promised them all the women in Seoul. The book claims MacArthur issued this “special order” in September 1950 to American soldiers landing in Inchon. “Retake Seoul! There are girls and women. For three days the city will be yours. You will have girls and women in Seoul,” was apparently a MacArthur direct-quote, according to the book.
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  (#9) The Juche Ideology Is The Core Of North Korean Education And Vows To Bring Down Capitalist Scum

  Juche, or "self-reliance," is the official national ideology of North Korea and is something instilled in children at an early age through the state-run education system. It was originally developed by Kim II Sung in 1955, and it emphasizes the responsibility of the North Korean public to maintain a revolutionary spirit and to forward the state’s progress. It also demands absolutely loyalty to the state leader and a hatred of capitalism.

  “We must overturn imperialism and capitalism, and continue the revolution even after we establish the socialist system. Socialism and communism does not automatically get established through the usurpation of imperialism and capitalism. The longevity of socialism and communism are reached through long-term labor and class struggles,” the philosophy states.
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  (#4) Americans Are Almost Always Referred To As Bastards

  In Korean, “miguk nom,” literally translates to “American bastard,” and everyone from school-age children to grandmothers refer to Americans in this way. “We love playing military games knocking down the American bastards,” reads one poster inside of a children’s classroom. Another poster features an image of an American with a noose around his neck.
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  (#1) There Are Frequent Field Trips To A Museum Dedicated To America's Crimes Against North Korea

  There is an entire museum dedicated to all of America’s crimes against humanity. It is called the Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities, and it’s located just south of Pyongyang. Children make frequent field trips to this museum, which instill in them a fierce repulsion of America and all its cultural values. Much of the material in the museum is extremely graphic and includes photographs of Americans violently murdering North Korean women. The authenticity of much of the material in the museum is highly questionable.  

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