As North Korea grapples with flood restoration, authorities are issuing warnings to victims in border areas towards “impure propaganda” from South Korea, revealing issues about eroding loyalty. This cautionary message is embedded inside broader directives for intensive reconstruction, originating from the propaganda arm of North Pyongan province’s occasion committee.
“Ideological propaganda packages have to be purposefully carried out in every group within the province, and particularly within the counties and villages on the border. It is usually needed to determine a spirit of excessive vigilance in our lives,” the directions mentioned, in keeping with a supply in North Pyongan province on Monday.
These directions are set to function the idea for ideological training for residents of these areas.
“Heeding the decision of the Central Committee, the whole citizenry of our nation is at present coming collectively to work on recovering from the flood. Because of the vigorous efforts of shock troops dispatched from varied provinces, cities and counties, the flood-stricken areas are altering by the day,” the preface to the directions mentioned.
The preface included this info to reward the “shock troops,” or groups of building employees, that have been mobilized to flood reconstruction websites.
“Sinuiju and Uiju county are among the many ‘gateway cities’ on the nationwide border. Earlier than lengthy, they are going to be recognized not as flood-stricken areas, however as dwelling to a number of latest architects of tradition,” the directions mentioned.
Nonetheless, the regime emphasised the necessity to keep on guard towards “impure propaganda” despatched from South Korea.
“The South Korean puppet regime isn’t completely satisfied to see the revolutionary combating spirit of the troopers and shock troop members struggling energetically to rapidly full the reconstruction work. The South Koreans are having folks creep as much as our border to shoot movies disparaging the DPRK and working these movies of their information reviews,” the directions claimed.
The directions additionally contained harsh criticism of South Korea: “The puppet regime goes loopy because it seeks to take advantage of the confusion of our reconstruction efforts to ship over impure propaganda.”
North Korean chief Kim Jong Un beforehand used the phrase “going loopy” to criticize the South Korean information media in a speech to flood victims on Aug. 9, shortly after the catastrophe. Kim referred to reviews claiming that many North Koreans had died within the flooding as “media reviews from a ragtag nation of rubbish.”
“Our enemies’ trashy newspapers estimate that casualties within the flood-stricken areas exceed 1,000 or 1,500. However these figures are fabricated,” Kim mentioned whereas paying a go to on Sept. 2 to a North Korean helicopter unit that helped rescue victims through the flood.
The explanation the North Korean regime has continued to slam the South Korean media’s reviews in regards to the scenario within the flood-impacted areas and to instruct residents to keep away from such reviews is as a result of flood victims, who stay on the border, typically hear information from the skin world. The regime is anxious that such publicity might weaken their loyalty to the regime.
Given these components, the North Pyongan province’s occasion committee harassed that self-sufficiency is the one path to a rich nation. “We should absolutely acknowledge that it is just once we consider in our personal energy within the wrestle, and our personal self-sufficiency, that the Fatherland can grow to be a rich nation,” the provincial occasion committee mentioned within the directions.
“All employees within the province have to attempt collectively as one to quickly full reconstruction within the affected areas and to construct a rich state,” the directions mentioned.
On a associated notice, Kim revisited the flood-impacted areas in North Pyongan province on Sept. 29 to supervise rebuilding and building work there.
The Rodong Sinmun newspaper mentioned that Kim had emphasised that “rapidly easing the ache of the flood victims and returning manufacturing and residing requirements within the broken areas to regular is the best precedence dealing with the Get together and the federal government on the present time.”
This was Kim’s third time to go to the flood-impacted areas, following earlier visits on July 28 and on Aug. 8-9. The North Korean regime seems to be highlighting the supreme chief’s “benevolent management” to assuage folks’s emotions within the flood-impacted areas.
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