Talk:Kim Hyon Hui

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Amazing what indoctrination can do to people.She a living exhibit of "brainwashing". - 84.94.129.230

[edit] Names

So is it Kim Sung Il or Kim Seung Il? The article uses the latter at one point.

Also, the 'references' section at the bottom of the article gives her name as Kim Hyun Hee... 71.214.178.65 06:12, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Although I am not an expert, I believe the different spellings are a due to transliteration of the names from Korean to English. dfg 00:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The differences in spelling are due to the bent of Wikipedia to use the (very) recent introduction of the South Korean government's Romanization system. North Koreans do not use the South Korean system. North Koreans have their own system in Korean (조선글) and their own system of Romanizing that Korean (revised McCune-Reischauer). Spread across Wikipedia is an irrational insistence that all things North Korean are presented in the South Korean style. North Korean names are harnessed with the South Korean hyphen and South Korean lower case (i.e. 김정일, as a North Korean, would Romanize his name Kim Jong Il – not in the southern style of Kim Jong-il. However Wikipedia insists on the southern system). North Korean place names are altered to fit the South Korean government’s preference for Romanization (i.e. 백두산 , a North Korean mountain, is Romanized in Wikipedia in the South Korean style [Baekdu Mountain] as opposed to the North Korean style [Paekdu Mountain] However Wikipedia insists on the southern system). This is simply illogical, but standing in the face of a tidal wave of lemmings and attempting to point out the very un-encyclopedic nature of this trend is futile.

In the 4th paragraph it also states Kim's misson came directly from the Dear leader himself Kim Jong-II...but if her mission was in 1989 Kim Jong-II was not the leader of N. Korea untill 1994

Kim the elder was known as “The Great Leader,” while Kim the younger was/ is known as “The Dear Leader.” Kim the younger was called by this title even when his father was alive and at the healm.

[edit] Noncompliant?

So... can someone give me a rundown on how this article is noncompliant with Wikipedia's policies? -- Hongooi 15:04, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

"Kim was taken to see the prosperity of Seoul outside of her prison cell. She had been taught in North Korea that American culture had supplanted the Korean culture in the South. She had also been taught that the rich exploited the poor who lived in poverty. What she saw outside of her prison cell made her realize that everything that she had been taught regarding South Korea was mere propaganda"

This, for example, reads like a positive judgement of South Korea. Also the tone is not really encyclopedic. 80.128.70.127 23:39, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

I'll attempt to improve the prose and tone via the written source I currently have in hand, which contains an interview with Kim from the book Shoot the Women First (also just added as a reference) published in 1991. dfg 00:06, 20 September 2007 (UTC)