North Korea has a difficult landscape and poor soil that makes growing food challenging. The people are controlled through propaganda that promotes the dictator Kim Jong Il as a god-like figure, and citizens live in constant fear of punishment or death for any disloyalty. Food is scarce for most citizens, who are often forced to eat wild plants and mushrooms for survival, while the leader lives lavishly. The only sanctioned religion is one that worships Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. The economy is weak, and citizens have little freedom for leisure activities due to poverty and government control.

1. North Korea
By Michael Altman

2. Landscape
• North Korea has beautiful landscape.
• But because of the war their terrain is a lot worse.
• Their soil is not very rich and is not the best place to grow food.
• They have a lot of paddy fields which hold rice and other
products.
• There way of farming is different from what we do or what the
Europeans do.

4. People of North Korea
• The citizens of North Korea are tricked into thinking that “The
Great Leader” as they call him is a god.
• North Korea is very strict and if they don’t like someone or
don’t do what they want they will exterminate anyone even
their citizens.
• They don’t have a lot of food because they are one of the
poorest countries.
• They are supposed to praise The Great Leader all the time and
if they don’t they will be executed.
• Not only citizens but soldiers will be walking around
everywhere.

6. Native Food
• If people are homeless then they are forced to eat “wild food”.
• These “wild foods” are tree bark, grass, poisonous grass,
mushrooms and even poisonous mushrooms.
• But The Great Leader gets rice, seaweed, and other Korean
cuisines.
• North Korea can have good food but Kim Jong Il does not want
the people of his country to eat well.
Sometimes people would even have to
This is something The Great Leader fight for food.
would get.

7. Religion
• In North Korea most people are forced to believe in “Juche”.
• Juche is the religion were they think that Kim Il Sung is god and
his son Kim Jong Il is the son of god.
• Some people say that is the only religion they are allowed to
practice if not they would be executed.
• Some escapees told reporters that Juche was the only religion
allowed in North Korea.

8. Economic Growth
• The country doesn’t have the best economy.
• The only things they can really sell is their rice or their paddy
fields.
• The government isn't just giving them food like they are
supposed to they sell it to the citizens.

9. Sports/Leisure
• They have a national team for soccer.
• They play soccer there but they don’t have the money for
soccer balls so they have to use rice balls.
• They don’t really like to play games except for the small
children.
• The parents are out on the paddy fields most of the time they
don’t have time for sports and leisure.
• Plus there government doesn’t really want them to be happy.