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At 9am on the morning of January 1st<\/sup>, Kim did not offer concrete Kim did not shy away from the recent purge Park Young Ho of Korea Institute for \u201cWe can see Somewhat in contrast with Kim\u2019s address on However, rather than a policy volte \u201cWe should clearly prove the validity and vitality of the theses by waging the ideological, technological and cultural revolutions dynamically in the rural areas and bringing about a decisive turn in agricultural production,\u201d Kim declared.<\/span><\/p>\n One other noteworthy part of the address Elsewhere, there was a marked decline in the use of Much of the early South Korean coverage of Although Kim did state that a \u201cclimate for improved relations between North and Experts quickly reviewed Kim\u2019s address, and most declared it rather insubstantial. According to Park of KINU, \u201cThe part about \u201cImproving relations with America was not <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 9am on the morning of January 1st, Kim Jong Eun delivered his second televised New Year\u2019s Address. Therein, Kim emphasized regime policies \u201cfor the people,\u201d such as spurring economic development through the medium of agriculture, as well as the imperative to establish highly secure, monolithic leadership. Kim did not offer concrete policy prescriptions, instead suggesting broad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":25625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-analysis-and-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nKim Jong Eun delivered his second televised New Year\u2019s Address. Therein,
\nKim emphasized<\/span> regime <\/span>policies \u201cfor the people,\u201d such as spurring
\neconomic development through the medium of agriculture, as well as the
\nimperative to establish highly secure, monolithic leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n
\npolicy prescriptions, instead suggesting broad thematic areas to address, broadly in keeping
\nwith established propaganda narratives from 2012 and 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nof Jang Song Taek, which he called an essential and \u201cresolute measure\u201d to remove
\ntraitors and factionalists from the Chosun Workers\u2019 Party and consolidate the
\nmonolithic unity of Party rule. The official will to achieve this ideological
\nand political consolidation was repeatedly emphasized throughout the address,
\nwith phrases such as \u201cstrengthen[ing] the political and ideological might of
\nour revolutionary ranks\u201d predominant.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nNational Unification (KINU) told Daily NK that this focus was intended
\nto \u201ccompletely eliminate factions that might try to challenge the system, and <\/span>build a monolithic leadership system
\nwith Kim Jong Eun at its center.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nin this the immediate urgency of securing the leadership of the Kim Jong Eun
\nsystem,” he added. “It also proves that the system continues to be unstable.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\nJanuary 1st<\/sup>, 2013, when he used North Korea\u2019s successful launch of an
\nartificial satellite to prioritize science and technology as the route to
\nsocialist construction, this year Kim prioritized agriculture first, followed
\nby construction and then science and technology.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nface, this switch appears intended to set the scene for propaganda on
\nagriculture in 2014, which marks the 50<\/span>th<\/sup> anniversary of Kim Il
\nSung\u2019s work on agricultural matters, 1964\u2019s \u201cRural Theses on the Solution to
\nthe Rural Question.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nwas that, having urged greater productivity in almost every sector of the
\neconomy, Kim then demanded a contradiction: that energy conservation be
\nattended to in all sectors<\/span> at the same time. <\/span>North Korea, he declared in
\ntypically militant language, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>must launch an economization battle.”<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n
\ncertain keywords in the 2014 New Year\u2019s Address. Notably, Kim used the phrase
\n\u201cSongun\u201d on just three occasions, compared with seven in 2013. The phrase
\n\u201cByungjin Line\u201d was used only once.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nKim\u2019s speech took particular note of his reference to improving
\ninter-Korean relations. However, closer inspection of this section reveals more limited cause for
\noptimism.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSouth\u201d must be created, his attendant explication of the problem cleaved to
\ntraditional ideas of Great Power domination. \u201cTo resolve the reunification issue in keeping with the
\naspirations and desires of our fellow countrymen, we should reject
\nforeign forces and hold fast to the position of By Our Nation Itself,\u201d he said, referring to North Korea\u2019s long-standing demand that the U.S. military withdraw
\nfrom the Korean Peninsula and that the two Koreas address unification alone (“among our people”).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\ndeveloping the People\u2019s Economy through agriculture re-emphasized something that
\nhad already come out via a Cabinet meeting, while emphasizing improved
\nSouth-North relations but without improved behavior cannot be seen as a more
\nmeaningful gesture compared with other times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
\nmentioned at all,” he noted, declaring that<\/span> overall
\nthe New Year\u2019s Address was a simple one. <\/span>\u201cAll it showed was
\nthat under the current circumstances Kim Jong Eun is stressing the importance
\nof the economic sector, including the people’s food security, and that he will strive to achieve systemic stability.”<\/span><\/p>\n