The North Hamgyong Province branch of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League recently held lectures urging local youths to “thoroughly reject reactionary thinking and culture,” Daily NK has learned.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that the provincial branch of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League “has organized lectures for young people urging them to reject reactionary thinking and culture, with provincial officials of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League visiting townships to deliver the lectures in person.”
The provincial branch of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League has been conducting the lectures since July 1. It also recently gathered the entire student body of Chongjin Mine and Metal University for a lecture.
According to the source, the provincial Socialist Patriotic Youth League official who conducted the lecture told the university students that they “must unconditionally reject reactionary thinking and culture as the main culprit that harms the purity of the nation and corrupts the minds of the youth.
In particular, he warned against the “gradually worsening ideological laxity of the youth who secretly exchange comments in support of the South Korean puppet regime while betraying the party, the homeland and the leader, and the reality that the minds of the youth are changing after watching impure recordings of the South Korean puppets.” He said that young people must “thoroughly reject this and safeguard our revolutionary thought and culture.”
The lecturer said that a “youth movement is underway in puppet South Korea to petition for the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol” and spent much of the presentation describing this alleged movement in detail.
The lecturer said that the petition movement had collected over 100,000 signatures in just four days after it started on June 20. It had surpassed 200,000 signatures by June 26, 300,000 by June 27, 500,000 by June 28, and 630,000 by June 29. He said this reflected the “explosiveness of public opinion in puppet South Korea against Yoon, and we need to see how explosive public opinion is when the petition ends on July 20.”
The lecturer said that “now is the time to see how the warmonger Yoon will be impeached soon” and called on North Korean youth to “lend their strength to the movement to impeach Yoon as July will be the month of death for him and the month of victory for our people.”
Lectures serve to emphasize North Korean media’s anti-Yoon stance
These comments are consistent with recent reports in the North Korean media, including the Rodong Sinmun, regarding South Korea. In fact, the Rodong Sinmun published a KCNA report on page 6 of its July 10 issue entitled “Candlelight Rallies for the Indictment of Yoon Suk Yeol in South Korea.” The story included news and photos of candlelight protests in Seoul.
“A massive candlelight resistance was launched in the puppet ROK to demand the impeachment of puppet Yoon Suk Yeol, who as a war puppet and shock brigade of the U.S. and Japan is increasing the danger of nuclear war and plunging the people’s life into disaster with his murderous rule,” the newspaper reported. “The candlelight rally, which was held for the first time after the number of people participating in the campaign for Yoon’s impeachment exceeded one million, was full of the confidence and enthusiasm of the participants and that the massive candlelight resistance to make the ‘impeachment storm’ through the efforts of people from all walks of life will continue to grow stronger.”
North Korea appears to be using these reports in its ideological indoctrination of youth to promote hostility toward the South.
The committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League of Chongjin Mine and Metal University “ordered students to hold discussions on the ideas presented in the lecture afterward,” the source said.
This suggests that the authorities intend to crack down on young people’s thoughts while forcing them to repeat the content of the lecture over and over again.
Daily NK works with a network of sources living in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous for security reasons.
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