This is what it's like to go undercover in North Korea

TED
Suki Kim: This is what it's like to go undercover in North Korea
Summary
The speaker is Suki Kim who was born and raised in South Korea and she currently lives in America. She has been to North Korea and is interested in its country and regime. She wanted to know and write something, the true meaning of this country.
She had stayed there as an English teacher. For North Koreans, everything led to the Great Leader, Kim ll-Sung and Kim Jong-Il. Every class and conversation were recorded and reported on. The teacher and students were never allowed to discuss the outside world. The students didn't know the existence of the internet though their major was science and technology. They were taught lies. This nation's ideology, their day-to-day realities and even her own position at the universities, were all built on lies.
Due to that, she felt that them lying was a mistake. They answered things that were only taught to them. They just obeyed.
She really wanted to tell them that, but it wasn't allowed.
However, sometimes they looked alike other world students.
Then, her students said to her, "we never think of you as being different from us. Our circumstances are different, but you're the same as us. We want you to know that we truly think of you as being the same."
She realized that they were just not able to express their feelings. They didn't have the way to tell anything. She also never told anything to them.            
They didn't have a choice to tell anything, but they might know something. it's becauese people become good at reading what is unspoken when they are not allowed to express anything in the open.
It's not able to conform but ask anything to each other.Even if it becomes possible, it just puts them at risk.
In the last part, her thoughts were written on her letter which never reached. "I don't know it is good for you to be gentle in there. I don't want you to lead a revolution. Even if North Korea is the merciless country, it's your home. I cannot hate it. I hope you live long in safety and you will make your country beautiful. "
◆Viewpoints and Discussion
1. Which part in the video are you interested with?
By chance, I heard this speech. Somehow, I was deeply moved, and the speaker Suki Kim whose English was easy for me to hear. I think that she is Korean who is the same Asian people to me.  
I thought, and  people also must think, that people don't want to talk about North Korea, because it is the country where it is strange, scary and hard to understand. It will be too difficult to talk, but she speaks fair but it is TED stage.
First, she wanted to know and write about the North Korean truth. However, her thoughts changed. She honestly talked that. Even though she could know that, it might lead her students to a revolution. Even if North Korea is the merciless country, it's their home. She could not hate it. I realized she really loves her students and the country is important for citizen living in there. 
North Korea, South Korea and Japan are the same Asian countries though there is a lot difference that you are not able to learn in the textbooks for the schools.
2. Do you have any idea about North Korea? If yes, kindly share your ideas.
No, I don't have a good idea. Recently, some bad news was announced from North Korea. However, I think that there might be a little hope more than past. It is because North Korean leader Kim Jong UN is still young. I heard that he learned many things in the other countries. In my opinion, he might be able to change his own country and he will think that also.
3. Which do you think is better for young people in North Korea to lead a revolution or to have a solemn and peaceful life?
I think that it is better for young people in North Korea to have a solemn and peaceful life.
4. Could you share any idea that you know about the different lives of people in different area of the world.
No,I couldn't. I strongly thought that we couldn't share any idea by hearing this speech and studying English again. It is because learning countries' history and languages are really deep. I feel that the differences of the historical awareness appear among countries in the world the more I study. However, all countries have to overcome the problems and corporate each other.
Words in this story
gulag / a system of labor camps maintained in the former Soviet Union from 1930 to 1955 in which many people died.
ideology / a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.