The needle of a compass always oscillates before it points the north. My impression on the North Korea is just like a compass. It is police state where it uses fear and propaganda to control the people into a specific way, yet people begin to doubt and resist to the government. And they know the limitations and leverage points of their society better than any outside political missionary bent on a softer version of regime change.
This golden rule extends as well to North Koreans living in South Korea. It is in the interest of both Koreas for this group of people to succeed rather than live in a kind of underclass in South Korean society. Successful North Koreans in South Korea can provide remittances to their family and friends in the North…show more content… According to Michel Foucault, this type of facilitation is effective enough to control one's subjectivity. Subjectivity is played in the sense of being consciously aware of one's own self and others. One's own actions as performed through conscious decision. This is related to how a structure of power is able to enforce its control which he refers to as Panopticism. Foucault states, that the purpose of the panopticon is “to induce the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power” (Discipline and Punish 201). The panopticon allows for an ease in controlling others in order to maintain a certain way of being. Foucault suggests that this is possible when power is visible and unverifiable and so, “[an individual] is seen, but [that individual] does not see; [one] is the object of information, never a subject in communication” (Discipline and Punish 201). Communication is the factor which determines one's subjectivity as communication is the only way to know the Other. However, panopticism is effective as power is disindividualized; meaning that one does know is watching them (Discipline and Punish 202). The magnitude of this effect would equal to that no one in North Korea would no who can be trusted. Each North Korean would be afraid to speak out or deviate from the North Korean norm. Everyone would be afraid of everyone as they each person would critique each other to maintain their own image of loyalty to the governing powers. This allows less on governmental officials to go out to each village to do such enforcement and relies more on the village people to do
