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Scholastic Has Some Pro-North

Korean Propaganda For The Kids

• Mar 20, 2015
 
• Source: The Federalist
 
• by: Bethany Mandel

While recently book browsing at a local Barnes & 

Noble, I noticed a strange addition to the bookshelf

 holding children’s guides to foreign countries. 

The Scholastic Children’s Press has a series

 called “A True Book,” and one stood out:

 “A True Book About North Korea.” I immediately

 reacted in horror: how could the children’s 

book company delicately explain gulags, slave 

labor, or a militaristic society which starves 

its people while lavishing luxury goods on its ruler?

Of course, the book explained none of these things. It was as if Kim Jong-un himself had written 

a children’s guide to his great kingdom. Scholastic has printed a brochure for North Korea filled with

 outright lies, not to mention lies of omission. The back cover even exclaims, “ALL NEW

 ALL TRUE!” for irony’s sake. Variations of this “TRUE” exclamation appear several times, even

 in the index.

Parroting North Korean Propaganda

It was with horror that I read this description of the Hermit Kingdom on the book’s back cover:

 “The capital city has an excellent subway system. It is decorated with wall paintings and

 chandeliers.” Before even opening the book it was clear it would be completely unfaithful to

 what life is like in North Korea.

There are, in fact, just two subway stations that seem to meet this description. They are the 

only two stations foreigners are ever brought to. North Korean officials claim the whole system

 looks like this, but it’s impossible to know if any other stations even exist. One foreign visitor 

was able to escape his minders and tried to make his way into a station never before visited

 by an outsider. He found it closed. Some North Korea watchers believe parts of the system

 exist, but none are in use, and that there is just a shuttle that runs between the two show 

stations while visitors are present, with actors playing the part of busy commuters. The 

elaborate game North Koreans play to 

keep the illusion of a working system in place is straight out of ‘The Truman Show.’

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