Why is it important to avoid having a single story regarding North Korea?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/opinion/sunday/propaganda-north-korea.html
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ) . North Korea is one of the most powerful countries we do know so far, Because having a single story about something can make you blind, and forget the real things about it. According to Nicholas Kristof in his New York Times article ‘Why I Went to North Korea’, “Being on the ground in a country lets you see things and absorb their power” What we do need is to know the two countries, the United States and the North Korea, and try to humanize everything about North Korea.
A country should be a place where people feel like themselves, where parents should not fear any threats by talking with their kids about any kind of subjects. A place where you should feel free to leave and to come back to without any idea that we can be bumped any time by another country, knowing that we are not safe. It should not be like that. North Korea is a Communist country and different than the United States of America which has been a democratic country. For more than eight years, both countries have been dealing with some diplomatic issues and, since that time they are either white or black about some views not only not agreeing with the other, but not liking the way thing goes there which means they need some explanation. As Kristof said why go to such place? yes, we must carefully weigh the risks, physical risks and the danger of being used by propagandists and work to mitigate them. By him being in the ground made him realize that things are not what he had expected because when you stay outside the bridge and having your own opinion about something will probably make you confused about some wrong ideas. Like Kristof said you probably think that people living in North Koreans are like robots , people with no living, no joy, no laugh, no hope, we always think about them like they have been captured, which means they need our help.
Kristof has wanted more than that, more than what we can assume that's why he went there. We can’t stay in our own place and let a country be destroyed by our own, simply because we just made a story about them. The danger of the single story most of the times is just a Thought. By being aware of it, it can help us to escape the risk by having a cataclysm or crime against humanity. We can be wrong sometimes by having a single story about something, let’s humanize, let's take a step to the ground and by that, we can see if the country is a place of living or otherwise a place of the walking dead.
The right of every single person in the world should not be something we are begging for. Either something we have to make a Rally for, it should be valuable, and something we have, not something we should fight for. We know the world is not fair, the United States government has its own issues and, like North Korea, both of them have some issues about human right. In that case, the job of journalists is to go out and report, however imperfectly, and try to ring alarm bells in the night. According to Kristof, we must see the danger of going to any kind of war if we don't have had our own visions of everything between them both.
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