Two Systems in Stark Contrast

 2023.8.2.

http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/17451

Cries of despair and fear for the future are now heard in many parts of the world as more and more children, the future of humanity, fall victim to all sorts of social vice such as murder and abuse.

It came as a shock when a Japanese woman was recently reported to have murdered and burnt her infant child.

Japan broke the record in 2022 with 115,762 reported cases of under-18 child abuse, out of which 2,181 cases were indicted.

This fact alone suffices to show the extent of inveteracy of child abuse in Japan.

Such being the case, Japan is trying desperately to embellish the plight of its children, never failing to miss a single chance to hype up “promotion of a new and improved child and infant care policy”.

The situation is no different from the U.S., a country that proudly boasts of “civilization”.

The CBS recently broadcast the survey report of the State of Illinois, which revealed that as many as 2,000 children were subjected to sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the last seventy years (1950-2019), an exposé of a much more disgraceful situation than what had been revealed in the 2018 Report on Catholic sexual abuse situation in Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Report released in May, 305 under-15 minors are working longer hours or sweating with life-threatening and illegal night jobs. Such illegal employment has reached an all-time high since the 2011 fiscal year with more than 250,000 child laborers.

The move is coming up in different parts of the U.S. to legalize child labor.

Arkansas and Ohio enacted the bill in March removing a legislation that had prevented 14- to 15-year-olds from being employed without a work permit. They were also allowed to work until 9 p.m., later than what is allowed by federal law.

Children who should be adored as the future of the country are now falling victim to immorality and social vice, groaning in the abyss of death.

Such is the reality of the capitalist society, clearly proving that the capitalist system is indeed the one with gloomy prospects, where children are reduced to an object of exploitation and slaves of money, rather than being protected by the society.

In stark contrast, children in the DPRK are called kings and queens of the country.

Our Party and the state are taking all necessary measures for our coming generation as we regard the work for them as an important undertaking for eternal prosperity of the motherland.

Children in all parts of the country grow up happily, free from any worries and envy and materialize their dreams and wishes to their hearts’ content.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is of the view that genuine patriotism should be based on lofty outlook on posterity and that the government expenditure spent for our young generation is no expenditure at all.

He thus instilled such a philosophy into the minds of the people that nothing would be spared for the sake of children.

The whole country itself has become a large flower garden of socialism overflowing with affection of a family under his warm care.

There are many moving stories telling of the noble virtues characteristic of our country, a large socialist family.

Among them are stories about a girl mother in Kangson who volunteered to raise children without parents, about a man who rescued others’ children before reaching out for his own drowning child, and about numerous fathers and mothers who devoted their invariable love for children without parents for scores of years.

The days and nights of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un may as well be woven into a history of love for posterity.

Thanks to his warm fatherly care, our children will grow up into reliable pillars and future masters of the powerful country, free from all worries.