{"id":42558,"date":"2019-10-24T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=42558"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:57:28","slug":"daily-nk-snapshots-north-korea-october-24-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/daily-nk-snapshots-north-korea-october-24-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily NK snapshots from North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i>Daily NK snapshots are summaries of select articles from our Korean website. Snapshots are written by our staff and are aimed at putting even more of Daily NK&#8217;s original reporting into English.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div>________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>North Korean cigarettes double as beacons of state propaganda\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Kim Dong Wan of Dong-A University recently published a book titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean Cigarettes: Varieties of Propaganda and Brands<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the increasing conflation of propaganda and marketing represented by the diversity of cigarette brands in the nominally socialist country. The thesis propounded in the book is that brands\u2014a hallmark of a capitalist economy\u2014serve a dual purpose for North Korean authorities: the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">economic <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">purpose of marketing and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">political <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">purpose of propagandizing. Kim contends that the \u201cpropagandistic value\u201d outweighs the \u201ceconomic value\u201d of brand equity for the Kim Jong Un regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smoking is ingrained within the North Korea lifestyle to the point that cigarettes are seen as necessary goods, rather than luxury purchases or an indulgence. Kim posits that authorities\u2014contrary to the socialist values that they espouse\u2014must take into consideration &#8220;capitalistic&#8221; factors, e.g., the color, packaging, and branding of these goods, in order to use them as vehicles for indoctrinating political ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Read the full article by Daily NK journalist Mun Dong Hui <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%EB%8B%B4%EB%B0%B0%EC%97%90-%EB%8B%B4%EA%B8%B4-%E5%8C%97-%ED%94%84%EB%A1%9C%ED%8C%8C%EA%B0%84%EB%8B%A4-%EB%B3%84%EC%9D%80-%EA%B9%80%EC%A0%95%EC%9D%80%EC%9D%98-%EB%98%90%EB%8B%A4\/\">here <\/a>[in Korean].<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Self-reliance&#8221; is North Korea&#8217;s reaction to the breakdown of Stockholm talks<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of this month and immediately following the breakdown of US-North Korean denuclearization negotiations in Stockholm, Sweden, North Korean authorities expressed renewed emphasis on \u201cself-reliance\u201d to the population through state-run media outlets. This newest bout of propaganda can be interpreted as the regime steeling itself (and its citizens) for continued sanctions and the resultant economic difficulties into the foreseeable future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rodong Sinmun <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published an article titled \u201cSelf-Reliance and Guaranteeing Productive Output,\u201d in which it extolled exemplar cases of domestic production, such as the K<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ubin Livestock Cooperative Farm and Taedong Steel Storage Battery Factory. At the same time, the state newspaper made no mention of the acrimonious dissolution of the Stockholm talks in any of its articles. Instead, it lauded the currently amicable diplomatic relations between China and North Korea, citing a congratulatory telegram recently sent by President Xi Jinping to the Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full article by Daily NK journalist Ha Yoon Ah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%E5%8C%97-%EB%B6%81%EB%AF%B8%ED%98%91%EC%83%81-%EA%B2%B0%EB%A0%AC-%ED%9B%84-%EB%98%90%EB%8B%A4%EC%8B%9C-%EC%9E%90%EB%A0%A5%EA%B0%B1%EC%83%9D-%EA%B0%95%EC%A1%B0%ED%98%91%EC%83%81\/\">here<\/a> [in Korean].<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>North Korea&#8217;s response to Typhoon Mitag lukewarm despite immense destruction\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typhoon Mitag, which hit the central portion of the Korean peninsula at the start of this month, tallied ten deceased and eight injured in South Korea. North Korean sources report that the flooding of private residences, which has led to caving in or even the total collapse of people\u2019s homes, has led to additional casualties in North Korea as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three family members of a discharged soldier were killed when the walls of their house collapsed in on top of them during their sleep, as a pre-existing structural issue was compounded by flooding from Typhoon Mitag. However, North Korean authorities have failed to react appropriately after the natural disaster, reportedly attributing damage to private residences as a matter of personal responsibility, not the state&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full article by Daily NK journalist Kim Yoo Jin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ED%83%9C%ED%92%8D-%EB%AF%B8%ED%83%81%EC%9C%BC%EB%A1%9C-%EC%A7%91-%EA%B8%B0%EC%9A%B8%EA%B3%A0-%EB%AC%B4%EB%84%88%EC%A0%B8%EB%8F%84-%EB%8B%B9%EA%B5%AD-%EB%8C%80%EC%B1%85%EC%9D%80-%EB%AF%B8%EB%B9%84\/\">here<\/a> [in Korean].<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@gmail.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily NK snapshots are summaries of select articles from our Korean website. 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