{"id":49612,"date":"2021-10-05T12:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T03:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=49612"},"modified":"2021-10-05T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T03:58:06","slug":"north-korea-bolsters-ideological-education-military-following-restart-inter-korean-hotline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-bolsters-ideological-education-military-following-restart-inter-korean-hotline\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea bolsters ideological education in military following restart of inter-Korean hotline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea may have restarted Monday the inter-Korean hotline Pyongyang unilaterally cut in August, but the North Korean military has reportedly bolstered internal ideological education to \u201cguard against the spread of the Korean Wave.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Korean Wave refers to the growing popularity of South Korean pop culture, especially in East Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK military source in Pyongyang, the North Korean military\u2019s General Political Bureau distributed to the entire military on Thursday \u201ccollective study materials\u201d calling for soldiers to \u201cboldly defeat imperialist schemes to ideologically and culturally infiltrate\u201d the country and \u201cestablish a revolutionary military spirit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The political study materials involve a week\u2019s worth of self-study, lectures, exercises, criticism and Q&amp;As aimed at young soldiers throughout the military, supervised by unit propaganda departments and youth activities departments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is worth noting is that with the materials distributed on Thursday, North Korean military authorities launched their ideological education program the very day after national leader Kim Jong Un announced through local and international-facing media Pyongyang\u2019s intention to restart the hotline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move is seemingly aimed at getting a grip on potential ideological laxity within the military before authorities begin restoring dialogue and ties with the South.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the materials warn that though the North Korean military possesses modern weaponry as a nuclear power, socialism \u201cwill collapse overnight like a water-logged wall\u201d if authorities carelessly educate young soldiers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The materials also warned that young soldiers, the \u201cmain force of the People\u2019s Army that must protect the peace of the fatherland and the people,\u201d are \u201cstill oblivious to the importance of establishing a revolutionary military spirit.\u201d They then list instances of young soldiers \u201cblinded by bourgeois ideology and culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46725\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\uc5f4\ubcd1\uc2dd-\uae40\uc815\uc740-\ub9ac\ubcd1\ucca0-\ubc15\uc815\ucc9c-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ri pyong chol\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\uc5f4\ubcd1\uc2dd-\uae40\uc815\uc740-\ub9ac\ubcd1\ucca0-\ubc15\uc815\ucc9c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\uc5f4\ubcd1\uc2dd-\uae40\uc815\uc740-\ub9ac\ubcd1\ucca0-\ubc15\uc815\ucc9c-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\uc5f4\ubcd1\uc2dd-\uae40\uc815\uc740-\ub9ac\ubcd1\ucca0-\ubc15\uc815\ucc9c-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/\uc5f4\ubcd1\uc2dd-\uae40\uc815\uc740-\ub9ac\ubcd1\ucca0-\ubc15\uc815\ucc9c.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Jong Un at the leadership podium during the Party Foundation Day military parade in Pyongyang on Oct. 10, 2020. \/ Image: KCNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, raw recruits in a battalion with new recruits under the General Staff Department\u2019s Communications Bureau performed a \u201cstrange dance\u201d during the unit\u2019s downtime. Worse yet, the dance became a fad within the unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This suggests the soldiers were busted for imitating dances by South Korean pop groups like BTS, which are popular among young North Koreans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The materials also shared examples of punishments meted out by individual military units. They pointed to eight guardpost personnel in the Second Corps who were punished for \u201cfailing to adhere to report processing methods for enemy materials\u201d and a soldier of the Seventh Corps who received \u201clegal punishment\u201d for hiding a memory stick or card with South Korean songs in his uniform when he returned to his unit from leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With authorities suggesting soldiers will face similar punishments in the future, military units feel they must accelerate their educational efforts aimed at young soldiers, the source said. As the authorities intensify their \u201cpolitics of fear,\u201d cadres worry that they could face punishment \u201cas the people in charge.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said \u201cpolitical departments, organizational departments, propaganda departments and youth departments\u201d of units throughout the military will intensively review the ideology of their young soldiers and take measures in response by Party Foundation Day (Oct. 10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, military authorities have decided to write more frequent detailed reviews of the \u201cideological tendencies\u201d of individual soldiers. Instead of annual reviews, they will write quarterly reviews, a move likely aimed at recording suspected ideological changes through tighter surveillance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the military\u2019s manpower division has decided to turn over charts from ideological reviews by unit political departments to the social organizations of soon-to-be-discharged soldiers eligible for biannual university recommendations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chart transfer will begin during discharge procedures next spring and fall. Soldiers also receive a recommendation letter in their discharge documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the past, ideological problems found during ideological evaluations were overlooked by non-military organizations, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the authorities now excluding ideologically problematic soldiers from school recommendations and sharing their ideological records with their social organizations in their discharge documents, everyone is on guard, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%e5%8c%97%e8%bb%8d-%ed%95%b5%c2%b7%eb%af%b8%ec%82%ac%ec%9d%bc-%eb%ac%b4%ec%9e%a5%ed%95%b4%eb%8f%84-%ec%b2%ad%eb%85%84-%ea%b5%b0%ec%9d%b8-%ea%b5%90%ec%96%91-%ec%86%8c%ed%99%80%ed%95%9820211001\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea may have restarted Monday the inter-Korean hotline Pyongyang unilaterally cut in August, but the North Korean military has reportedly bolstered internal ideological education to \u201cguard against the spread of the Korean Wave.\u201d The Korean Wave refers to the growing popularity of South Korean pop culture, especially in East Asia. 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