{"id":62767,"date":"2025-03-21T17:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=62767"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:49:54","slug":"n-korean-ramps-up-ideological-lectures-for-youth-despite-growing-disinterest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/n-korean-ramps-up-ideological-lectures-for-youth-despite-growing-disinterest\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korean ramps up ideological lectures for youth despite growing disinterest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">North Korea has increased ideological lectures for young people in Chongjin, North Hamgyong province. These sessions, previously held once or twice monthly, are now mandatory weekly events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">A source told Daily NK recently that authorities now require weekly ideological lectures for students at high schools, vocational colleges, and universities throughout Chongjin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">&#8220;Despite creating new laws and even executing people to stop youth from watching &#8216;impure videos,&#8217; the government hasn&#8217;t curbed young people&#8217;s interests. So since the beginning of the month, authorities have mandated weekly criticism sessions and ideological lectures,&#8221; the source explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">The regime has intensified these lectures to keep young people vigilant against foreign ideology and culture. On March 8, one Chongjin high school hosted a lecture titled &#8220;Let&#8217;s strengthen the fight against the frightening toxins that erode young people&#8217;s class consciousness and revolutionary consciousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">The speaker began: &#8220;Impure videos and publications continue to propagate because of our enemies&#8217; plotting. This significantly weakens our young people&#8217;s class and revolutionary consciousness. The puppet regime (of South Korea) and hostile forces use these impure materials to undermine youth consciousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">The lecturer described outside ideology as part of &#8220;our enemies&#8217; strategy of destroying our socialist system&#8221; and emphasized that young people must guard against such influences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">&#8220;Our enemies ultimately want to tear down our socialist ideology and system. Their behavior isn&#8217;t new, but they&#8217;re more desperate now that our country is a nuclear power. Young people, as this country&#8217;s heirs, must lead in defending our socialist system,&#8221; the speaker declared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">&#8220;Lasting victory only comes through absolute trust and obedience to the Workers&#8217; Party and Supreme Leader. We must reinforce our ideological struggle to defeat our enemies&#8217; schemes by maintaining revolutionary vigilance,&#8221; the lecturer added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">While these sessions aim to prevent ideological wavering among youth, their effectiveness remains questionable. Young North Koreans admit they&#8217;re tired of repetitive lectures that cover the same points with little new material.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">&#8220;Young people already hate the weekly criticism sessions, so adding lectures will only irritate them further. They&#8217;ll attend for appearance&#8217;s sake, but the effectiveness will diminish over time,&#8221; the source concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20250315-1\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has increased ideological lectures for young people in Chongjin, North Hamgyong province. These sessions, previously held once or twice monthly, are now mandatory weekly events. A source told Daily NK recently that authorities now require weekly ideological lectures for students at high schools, vocational colleges, and universities throughout Chongjin. &#8220;Despite creating new laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":60320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,1360],"tags":[673,703,729,773,776,786,922,1035,1430],"class_list":["post-62767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society","tag-workers-party-of-korea","tag-education","tag-students","tag-north-hamgyong-province","tag-chongjin","tag-ideology","tag-south-korea","tag-lectures","tag-youth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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