{"id":54035,"date":"2023-02-14T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=54035"},"modified":"2023-02-14T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:24:10","slug":"north-korea-holds-lectures-party-cadres-spark-innovation-ideological-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-holds-lectures-party-cadres-spark-innovation-ideological-education\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea holds lectures for party cadres to spark innovation in ideological education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Workers&#8217; Party of Korea officials in South Hamgyong Province recently attended lectures calling for intensified ideological indoctrination of provincial residents, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in South Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that the province\u2019s party committee carried out lectures for cadres in party propaganda and agitation departments at the provincial, city and county level in mid-January.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lectures were entitled \u201cParty Cadres Must Become High-output Loudspeakers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFollowing the lectures for the cadres, lectures were carried out for party officials at the city and county level early this month, and even in Hamhung, lectures were held for the party secretaries of individual agencies and enterprises and cell secretaries,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, North Korea&#8217;s leadership stressed during lectures for party cadres that they must make efforts to implement ideological indoctrination that accurately conveys party ideology to the people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s lectures had the same message, with the authorities calling <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> officials to make all-out efforts in propaganda and agitation activities to spark innovation in ideological education amid the difficult period the country is experiencing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, officials who took part in the lectures have been less than enthusiastic about their message.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Daily NK&#8217;s source, a party cell secretary at a workplace in Hamhung asked, \u201cHow can we tell people who are hungry and cold to simply trust and follow the Workers&#8217; Party?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cell secretary said he was too embarrassed to speak with ordinary people anymore given that the Workers&#8217; Party is simply telling him to indoctrinate people without resolving the country&#8217;s fundamental problems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, Daily NK&#8217;s source said there were lots of people with faces swollen from hunger in not only rural counties and villages, but also cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven party officials feel troubled that they must ideologically indoctrinate such people to live according to the ideology and will of the Workers&#8217; Party,\u201d he said. &#8220;Y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ou can\u2019t soothe public discontent with propaganda and agitation work these days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the source said local residents who heard about the message of the lectures complained, \u201cAre they saying we can\u2019t survive because our ideology is wanting?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the state is using all means at its disposal to correct worsening public sentiment, but \u201cit\u2019s only leading to blowback.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf the state really cares about the people, it should allow markets to stay open at least a little longer rather than intensifying ideological education,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Translated by David Black. 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