{"id":61359,"date":"2024-10-10T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=61359"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:19:20","slug":"rebuilding-loyalty-north-korea-dual-approach-flood-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/rebuilding-loyalty-north-korea-dual-approach-flood-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding loyalty: North Korea&#8217;s dual approach to flood recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As North Korea grapples with flood recovery, authorities are issuing warnings to victims in border regions against &#8220;impure propaganda&#8221; from South Korea, revealing concerns about eroding loyalty. This cautionary message is embedded within broader directives for intensive reconstruction, originating from the propaganda arm of North Pyongan province&#8217;s party committee.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIdeological propaganda programs must be purposefully carried out in each organization in the province, and especially in the counties and villages on the border. It is also necessary to establish a spirit of high vigilance in our lives,\u201d the instructions said, according to a source in North Pyongan province on Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These instructions are set to serve as the basis for ideological education for residents of those areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHeeding the call of the Central Committee, the entire citizenry of our country is currently coming together to work on recovering from the flood. Thanks to the vigorous efforts of shock troops dispatched from various provinces, cities and counties, the flood-stricken areas are changing by the day,\u201d the preface to the instructions said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The preface included this information to praise the \u201cshock troops,\u201d or teams of construction workers, that were mobilized to flood reconstruction sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSinuiju and Uiju county are among the \u2018gateway cities\u2019 on the national border. Before long, they will be known not as flood-stricken areas, but as home to a host of new architects of culture,\u201d the instructions said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the regime emphasized the need to stay on guard against \u201cimpure propaganda\u201d sent from South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe South Korean puppet regime is not happy to see the revolutionary fighting spirit of the soldiers and shock troop members struggling energetically to quickly complete the reconstruction work. The South Koreans are having people creep up to our border to shoot videos disparaging the DPRK and running those videos in their news reports,\u201d the instructions claimed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The instructions also contained harsh criticism of South Korea: \u201cThe puppet regime is going crazy as it seeks to exploit the confusion of our reconstruction efforts to send over impure propaganda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korean leader Kim Jong Un previously used the phrase \u201cgoing crazy\u201d to criticize the South Korean news media in a speech to flood victims on Aug. 9, shortly after the disaster. Kim referred to reports claiming that many North Koreans had died in the flooding as \u201cmedia reports from a ragtag country of garbage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61361\" style=\"width: 741px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/20241002_jsk_\ubd81\ud55c\ud3c9\uc548\ubd81\ub3c4\uc218\ud574\uc9c0\uc5ed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"741\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/20241002_jsk_\ubd81\ud55c\ud3c9\uc548\ubd81\ub3c4\uc218\ud574\uc9c0\uc5ed.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/20241002_jsk_\ubd81\ud55c\ud3c9\uc548\ubd81\ub3c4\uc218\ud574\uc9c0\uc5ed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/20241002_jsk_\ubd81\ud55c\ud3c9\uc548\ubd81\ub3c4\uc218\ud574\uc9c0\uc5ed-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/20241002_jsk_\ubd81\ud55c\ud3c9\uc548\ubd81\ub3c4\uc218\ud574\uc9c0\uc5ed-696x464.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korea\u2019s Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported on Sept. 30 that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had visited the site of reconstruction in flood-stricken parts of North Pyongan province. \u201cComrade Kim Jong Un emphasized that quickly easing the pain of the flood victims and returning the damaged areas to normal is the greatest priority facing the Party and the government at the current time,\u201d the newspaper said. (Rodong Sinmun, News 1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur enemies\u2019 trashy newspapers estimate that casualties in the flood-stricken areas exceed 1,000 or 1,500. But those figures are fabricated,\u201d Kim said while paying a visit on Sept. 2 to a North Korean helicopter unit that helped rescue victims during the flood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason the North Korean regime has continued to slam the South Korean media\u2019s reports about the situation in the flood-impacted areas and to instruct citizens to avoid such reports is because flood victims, who live on the border, often hear news from the outside world. The regime is concerned that such exposure could weaken their loyalty to the regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given these factors, the North Pyongan province\u2019s party committee stressed that self-sufficiency is the only path to a wealthy country. \u201cWe must fully recognize that it is only when we believe in our own strength in the struggle, and our own self-sufficiency, that the Fatherland can become a wealthy country,\u201d the provincial party committee said in the instructions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll workers in the province need to strive together as one to rapidly complete reconstruction in the affected areas and to build a wealthy state,\u201d the instructions said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a related note, Kim revisited the flood-impacted areas in North Pyongan province on Sept. 29 to oversee rebuilding and construction work there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rodong Sinmun newspaper said that Kim had emphasized that \u201cquickly easing the pain of the flood victims and returning production and living standards in the damaged areas to normal is the greatest priority facing the Party and the government at the current time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was Kim\u2019s third time to visit the flood-impacted areas, following earlier visits on July 28 and on Aug. 8-9. The North Korean regime appears to be highlighting the supreme leader\u2019s \u201cbenevolent leadership\u201d to soothe people\u2019s feelings in the flood-impacted areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily NK works with a network of sources in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. For security reasons, their identities remain anonymous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><em>Please send any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20241007-1\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As North Korea grapples with flood recovery, authorities are issuing warnings to victims in border regions against &#8220;impure propaganda&#8221; from South Korea, revealing concerns about eroding loyalty. 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