North Korean Policy Elites - Defense Technical Information Center
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North Korean Policy Elites - Defense Technical Information Center
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is the environment: “Let’s Build a Socialist Paradise with a Clean Environment<br />
According to the Instructions of General Kim Jong-il”; “Let’s Plant More Trees”; along<br />
with an article about how a model county manages its water resources and plants trees,<br />
articles about farm mechanization, and at the bottom of the page brief paragraphs of news<br />
from a dozen government ministries.<br />
• Page 4 is devoted to arts and culture. The unifying theme on this date is the military: a<br />
reader’s contribution on “how our military is the best, and how we should support the<br />
military”; a poem praising the motherland; a description of how the military is like a big,<br />
happy family; an article on military-first youth patriotism.<br />
• Page 5 is the pan-<strong>Korean</strong> or <strong>Korean</strong> unification page. “February is the designated month<br />
of South <strong>Korean</strong> people’s joy and longing for Kim Jong-il”; “South <strong>Korean</strong>s Praise Kim<br />
Jong-il”; “Let’s Defeat South <strong>Korean</strong> Divisionists”; “The United States Should Stay Out<br />
of the <strong>Korean</strong> Unification Issue”; “Japanese-<strong>Korean</strong> Youth Unite!”; “President Bush Is a<br />
Warmonger (divisionist).”<br />
• Page 6, the international page, features articles praising <strong>North</strong> Korea and denigrating<br />
other countries, including “Banzai to Kim Jong-il, Sun of the 21 st Century” and “US<br />
Underhanded Approach to the Nuclear Issue.” In other articles on the page, readers are<br />
informed about support for <strong>North</strong> Korea coming from Egypt, Russia, and ASEAN;<br />
countries that hate the United States; U.S. armed hegemony; U.S.-Russia policy conflict;<br />
and the failure of IT globalization (viewed as a form of Western hegemony).<br />
Minju Choson (Democratic Korea) is the paper of the government administration. It<br />
publishes four pages daily, with a maximum circulation of 600,000. It informs readers about<br />
government policies and urges their implementation. Many Minju Choson articles are<br />
indistinguishable from those published in Nodong Sinmun. Pyongyang Sinmun (Pyongyang<br />
Daily) is the Pyongyang city paper, publishing four pages daily with a circulation of 50,000 or<br />
less. It carries more entertainment and cultural articles than Nodong Sinmun. The daily paper of<br />
the KPA is Choson Inmingun Sinmun (<strong>Korean</strong> People’s Army Daily), with information tailored<br />
to the needs of military personnel. The daily paper of the Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League is<br />
Chongnyon Chonwi (Youth Vanguard). Inasmuch as the party, the government, the military, and<br />
the youth organizations are the primary organizations in <strong>North</strong> Korea, these daily papers cover<br />
just about all of the population.<br />
Three other publications may be of interest to the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Korean</strong> elite. Kulloja (Worker),<br />
the theoretical monthly journal of the party, publishes explanations and justifications for party<br />
policies, Kyongje Yongu (Economic Studies) is a quarterly journal explaining and rationalizing<br />
<strong>North</strong> <strong>Korean</strong> economic policies; Kyongje Yongu also tries to teach its readers the rudiments of<br />
market economics and international trade, on the theory that <strong>North</strong> Korea must be prepared to<br />
deal with non-socialist economies - until capitalism destroys itself and the world embraces<br />
socialism. Chollima, the DPRK’s only general-interest magazine, is dedicated to instilling<br />
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