{"id":53628,"date":"2023-01-05T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53628"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T01:31:37","slug":"north-koreans-respond-recent-lectures-deifying-kim-jong-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-koreans-respond-recent-lectures-deifying-kim-jong-un\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Koreans respond to recent lectures deifying Kim Jong Un"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How have North Koreans responded to the government\u2019s end-of-the-year propaganda presenting leader Kim Jong Un as being a dedicated leader who loves the people?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple sources in North Pyongan Province and Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Dec. 27 that lectures praising Kim\u2019s leadership and benevolence have recently been held in various places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sources said that officials from the provincial offices of the Ministry of State Security spoke for an hour and 40 minutes at neighborhood watch units in their jurisdiction. Considering that the security officials are responsible for maintaining public order, attendance at the lectures was mandatory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main points emphasized in these lectures included strengthening the national defense, achieving victory in the pandemic, resolving the issue of nutrition for children, and building homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lectures were aimed at reinforcing Kim\u2019s image as a leader who looks after the welfare of the nation and also seeks to improve the public livelihood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As presented in the North Korean media, the lectures described Kim as a leader with \u201coutstanding vision\u201d and \u201cprofound wisdom\u201d who is capable of achieving a \u201cgreat victory\u201d against the enemy in the areas of politics, the economy, the military and foreign policy. In effect, the North Korean government once again resorted to a strategy of attempting to imprint these ideas inside the minds of its people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the authorities stressed that North Koreans needed to govern their actions \u201caccording to the leader and party\u2019s ideology and intentions through the pride they take in living in socialist Korea and having Kim Jong Un as their leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, quite a few North Koreans regarded this propaganda as being divorced from reality, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For one thing, some people pointed out that security officials did not even brought up the dire state of the food supply during their lectures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur living conditions ought to be apparent to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear, so it\u2019s astonishing that they could talk about such things,\u201d one local said, based on the source&#8217;s account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said that numerous people were irritated by the lectures. \u201cWhen we are starving to death, what\u2019s the point of strengthening the national defense, developing nuclear weapons or building homes?\u201d one person said, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor people like us who are shivering and starving for lack of firewood and food, the most urgent matter right now is making a living,\u201d another was heard to have said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean housewives generally took issue with the contradictions of the country&#8217;s home construction campaign. \u201cAs if the non-tax burden weren\u2019t bad enough, they\u2019ve drafted us [for the construction work] when we already shoulder the heavy burden of supporting our families,\u201d one housewife said, according to the source.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBuilding houses in Pyongyang and in farming areas in the provinces is described [by the government] in terms of the leader\u2019s love for the people, but the mere thought of it drives [many people] to annoyance,&#8221; the source claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20221227-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How have North Koreans responded to the government\u2019s end-of-the-year propaganda presenting leader Kim Jong Un as being a dedicated leader who loves the people? 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