[imText1]North Korean propaganda against the opposition Grand National Party (GNP) is getting more conspicuous with only 36 days remaining before Election Day. Since former leader of the GNP Lee Hoi Chang announced his candidacy, criticism against him has gradually intensified.
Unification Shinbo, a weekly magazine in North Korea, released a column on the 11th entitled “Unchanged Ambition for Power” that gibed, “A two-time failure in the Presidential Elections, Lee is nothing more than a political comedy.”
“Saving the Korean Frontier,” a website belonging to the United Front Department of the Workers’ Party, suggested in a November 9th article titled “Regarding Lee Hoi Chang’s running for the election as a Pro-American Puppet and an Anti-North Korean fanatic,” that Lee’s decision to enter the candidacy was to invoke U.S. political intervention.
Saving the Korean Frontier stated that “America chose the Pro-American Puppet, Lee Hoi Chang, for fear of Lee Myung Bak’s decreasing popularity.”
Additionally, the article proclaimed that “We should open the path toward national unification and prosperity by ensuring the progressive democratic faction’s victory in the upcoming Presidential Election and by strengthening anti-America and anti-GNP factions in order to destroy the corrupt landfill that is the GNP.”
North Korea supposedly expressed uneasy feelings about the high approval rating of Lee Hoi Chang, whose hard line policy toward North Korea is stronger than that of Lee Myung Bak.
If the approval rating of Lee Hoi Chang remains high, North Korean authorities will promote anti-Lee Hoi Chang propaganda.
Saving the Korean Frontier, which many insist is a South Korean indigenous communist organization established by North Korea, but in reality belongs to the United Front Department of the Workers’ Party, is covering its homepage with anti-GNP propaganda.
“Uriminzokkiri (meaning ‘amongst our nation’),” a new source belonging to the DPRK’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, criticized in an editorial that “National garbage should be demolished as soon as possible,” and stated that “The core power of the GNP is made up of descendants of pro-Japanese and pro-American parties as well as national traitors who should have already been cleaned out.”
