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Today in Human Geo we watched a movie that was mainly about North Korea. In this movie so far, a man and his team and camera crew go to North Korea to do surgeries on people that are blind to help them see, to teach other inexperienced “doctors” how to use their imported machinery and how to do smaller surgeries an give less expensive medicine, and last but not least, to get an inside look in the mysterious country of North Korea. Here are the notes that I took.

·      North Korea is the most isolated country on earth

·      Kim Jong Un rules as a “god king”

·      Their border is 148 miles long that is constantly guarded

·      They have many nuclear bombs behind their fence

·      North Korea known as an intelligence black hole

·      North Korea is about the size of Mississippi

·      Population: 23mil

·      Since North Korea became its own country in 1948, there has only been three leaders in 67 years who are all related

o   Grandfather: Kim Il Sung

o   Father: Kim Jong Il

o   Son: Kim Jong Un

·      Also known as the “hermit kingdom”

·      Thousands of people go blind because of lack of good medication

·      Americans are not welcome

·      Permits are required to be in the country unless you are a government official