North Korea has recently criticized the way some parents in the country use corporal punishment to educate their children, Daily NK has learned.
A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Friday that the Workers’ Party recently presented ways to raise “revolutionary future generations” as “workers of the nation and pure elements” by “correcting parents’ mistakes in educating their children.”
In fact, the Workers’ Party is making childcare one of its national campaigns for February.
According to the source, the party committee of Yanggang Province told leading officials from provincial, city and county party committees, along with party officials from government agencies and enterprises, about Workers’ Party’s policies for child education earlier this month.
The provincial party committee strongly criticized parents’ antiquated disciplinary methods such as beating their children with fists or rods, forcing children to stand outside in the cold, or putting them in dark closets.
The provincial party committee said parents must no longer treat children as they like and engage in such behavior just because of their status as “children,” emphasizing that parents take the lead in ensuring children become the “future ranks of the revolution, workers of the nation and pure elements” through “education with standards.”
Moreover, the party committee said it has a bad impact on children’s education to see their fathers belittling or beating their mothers or their parents fighting, calling on parents to cultivate themselves as role models for their children.
The party committee further said that all families must behave like Kim Jong Un’s family, and that officials must focus on efforts to turn families into “social cells” and work to prevent even one family from falling behind.
The source said the committee warned that while it had ignored the problem until now, party officials would now get directly involved and punish wayward individuals.
“The committee ordered that each workplace and neighborhood watch unitNeighborhood watch units (inminban, people's units) are Nort... More strengthen their mutual surveillance systems and report issues when they occur, making sure to immediately resolve problems when they arise,” he said.
Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.
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