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How can we still be animals when we are so evolved?

38th Parallel: The boundary line between North Korea and South Korea

After the war that started in the late 40s and early 50s between North Korea and South Korea the North stayed communist but the South went back to its natural state meaning democratic, in a way.
In the North Korea, people are thought from a young age that the ruler of the country is always right, no matter what.
North Korea is a country that's closed off from the rest of the world. You might not be able to leave the country without a reason, and if you do you might not be able to come back. People don't even try to escape, they don't even think about that, because most North Koreans are 'brainwashed,' they don't even realize that life may be better in other places.
There's a borderline between North and South Korea. It's about two miles long. That doesn’t sound far, and as a matter of fact it’s not far at all but the borderline is two miles of complete no-man's land. The border is called the Korean Demilitarized Zone, or the DMZ. Barbed wires surround the place so you can’t get it or out.

Escape from North Korea
For those fleeing their brutal homeland, the 2,000 perilous miles across China are just the beginning. Then comes the challenge of making a new life.

This is a photography project made by Chien-Chi Chang. These photos illustrate an escape from North Korea and how hard it is for people to leave their home land just to have a better life, a chance in life. Life that only exist in their dreams, even though it’s just a few miles away.


Borderlands
Barbed wire marks the high-security zone where the frontiers of Russia, China, and North Korea meet at the Tumen River. Elsewhere the border is more porous.



North Korea
“Peering from a bunker on the Tumen River, soldiers have orders to shoot anyone trying to sneak into or out of North Korea. Cross-shaped posts possibly support electrical wires. Many guards take bribes to let defectors cross to China.”


I still can’t believe that war still exists even though we seem so evolved we are animals that fight over land and material things. This fact will never change, we will always fight over our land and over everything that we feel it’s ours. What we seem to understand is that the earth is for everyone, we all have a place on it, our piece of land. But that is just fantasy, in real life there are people that have way much than they disserve and people that have nothing even though they deserve everything.