“Cry with Us” is a project album recorded by group of Korean celebrities to help starving children in North Korea. The project aims to give aid to the starving children of the north as well as to give them a message of hope. [Hat tip to Coolsmurf]
Note that the movie-clips from the music video are cuts from South Korean movie “Crossing” and not real footage; the movie is said to be based on real stories though.
I really feel for the people of North Korea. They are shut off from the world, left behind. Alot of them have absolutely nothing. Some are living on the banks of rivers I’ve heard. Seen pictures of the children. They are mal-nourished and barely clothed much of the time. The difference between the starving children of NK and the plight of people like in Africa and places like Zimbabwe under Mugabe, is that nobody actually sees alot of what’s happening in NK. The rest of the world and press is kept out. And all for what…because of a greedy militaristic government that cares nothing about it’s own people and wants to keep all power and money to themselves. Which is the whole problem in most starving countries.
Greedy dictatorships and any government that keeps it’s people down can never flourish as a nation. There’s just no way. Outside aid for those people is all they have to look forward to along with a prolonged situation of no change until the core problem is changed. Their leaders
JMO
I’m quite curious of how the South Korean think about the North Korean. They’re all Korean, right? What would they feel for their brothers and sisters who are suffering? I’m not pointing fingers here. I’m just curious.
acer4una… I can’t really answer your question since that I am not from Korea. But I have seen quite some effort from the south to help the north for the past decade… they don’t hate them obviously.
I honestly believe the South Koreans feel for their brothers and sisters and “cousins” in the North as time passes. The division between the 2 Koreas in the 50’s was a situation with governments (as most conflicts are), and not so much the common people. When and if North Koreans are able to get out, it is generally assumed that they are allowed to take refuge in South Korea if the can make it there by way of China, Tailand etc.
A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid has arrived in North Korea, after the country agreed to expanded international assistance for its impoverished people. The American ship that arrived Sunday carried 37,000 tons of wheat, the first installment of 500,000 tons in promised U.S. aid that will be distributed by the United Nations. The shipment came just days after the North handed over its delayed atomic declaration and blew up the cooling tower at its main nuclear reactor site.