The Orphan Master's Son Summary

In the book The Orphan Master’s Son Jun Do the protagonist gives insight on the way the North Korean government uses propaganda to help them get citizens to complete tasks for them. Jun Do is the son of an orphan master and is raised like an orphan. He works on fixing destroyed parts of North Korea with the other orphans. Then he became a leader of an underground unit, but is taken by the North Korean government to perform kidnapping of Japanese citizens. The North Korean government uses his status as a kidnapper to later make him into a spy. In this book there are multiple examples of effective propaganda within the walls of North Korea. Some of there methods are expert opinion, anecdotal evidence, and hyperbole, for they use these to convince Jun Do to commit actions he is opposed to. This helps prove that the
The citizens of the US constantly rely on the elected officials in the government to make decisions for them. Citizens listen to officials without a single doubt in their mind of what the official is saying. The people of every state have to vote for different laws to establish within their state and the ballot refers to them as propositions. In order to know which one to vote for, the state’s house of representatives and other congress members would go and try to use their expertise to get the voters side with them. This is wrong because if the people do not listen to what the proposition is going towards they may vote in a proposition that only benefits 2% of the population. Citizens would vote for laws solely off of the reason that the house of representative said to vote for it. This way of propaganda can also be found in North Korea. Jun Do is convinced that kidnapping another human being is okay just because an expert in that field said it was. Even though, expert opinion is found in America anecdotal evidence can also be