{"id":4815,"date":"2021-01-22T18:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2021-03-11T17:20:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:20:03","slug":"cultural-influence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.02.asiapress.org\/rimjin-gang\/2021\/01\/politics\/cultural-influence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWipe out the Korean Wave\u201d: Prison Sentences and Family Banishments follow Kim Jong-un\u2019s Direct Orders to Eliminate S. Korean Cultural Influence (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Photo) Leaflets created to blaspheme South Korea and President Moon Jae-in. As originally published by the Rodong Sinmun.<\/p><\/div>\n

Although it is not a recent phenomenon, the crackdown on the \"Korean Wave\" by the North Korean regime over the past year or so is enough to make one shudder.<\/p>\n

Young people have been publicly denounced at criticism rallies and excluded from higher education and military enlistment simply because they were found to have sent texts in South Korean style, watched South Korean dramas in secret, or sung South Korean songs with their friends. The punishments have escalated further, and recently they have been punished with imprisonment at public trials, and even their parents have been banished from the cities too.<\/p>\n

ASIAPRESS has obtained an internal Workers\u2019 Party document that outlines guidelines for harsh punishment. To begin with, the title is ostentatious. The document is entitled \u201cA Proposal for Measures and Related Proposals to Thoroughly Clean Up the Trash That Imitates and Copies the Words of the Puppets.\u201d In other words, it is an operational plan for wiping out the \"Korean Wave.\u201d <\/p>\n

The 5-page document was produced by the Workers\u2019 Party Organization and Guidance Department and distributed nationwide at the end of June 2020. As stated in the subtitle, \u201cDear Leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s June 19, 2020 policy\u201d, it is an order from Kim Jong-un for anti-South Korean propaganda and ideology sessions, as well as guidelines for control and punishment. The details will be explained in this article.<\/p>\n

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(Photo) The cover of the internal document, recently obtained by ASIAPRESS. The top underlined part refers to \"sniper warfare, pursuit warfare, search warfare, and sweeping warfare,\" and the bottom one quotes Kim Jong-un saying, \"We have to consider the phenomenon of imitating the words of the puppets to be a very serious problem.\u201d Photographed by ASIAPRESS.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u25c6Kim Jong-un orders sniper warfare and search and destroy methods to eliminate Hallyu<\/h2>\n

The internal document begins with Kim Jong-un's remarks on May 13. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe phenomenon of imitating and copying the \u2018puppet\u2019s language\u2019 in the daily vocabulary of youths is a very serious national and social problem. In addition, it is a very serious problem in relation to the prospects of our party from a political standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n

The influx of Korean culture and information, or \"Hallyu,\" has influenced the young generation to imitate the language of \u2018puppets\u2019, which is the South Korean way of speaking, indicating Kim Jong-un\u2019s strong feeling that it is a serious problem that could upset the system. <\/p>\n

The document continues with the introduction of Kim Jong-un's extreme rhetoric.<\/p>\n

\"To wage sniping and search and destroy warfare with high intensity on a party-wide, nation-wide, and alliance-wide basis in order to destroy every shred of the puppet language that has entered the realm of our linguistic life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also necessary to take revolutionary measures to deal with the phenomenon of the young generation imitating and copying the language of the puppets when they talk on their phones and exchange texts and to consider it a very serious problem. It is also necessary to declare that these people are trash, contaminated by the puppet culture, so that they can be ostracized in time.\u201d <\/p>\n

Next Page: \u25c6\u201dHallyu\" is a crime against the state...<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Photo) The top underlined part instructs the government to take control of those returning from abroad without missing anything, and the other one instructs the government to check the personal belongings of students as a countermeasure. (Photographed by ASIAPRESS)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u25c6\u201dHallyu\" is a crime against the state<\/h2>\n

In response to this statement by Kim Jong-un, the Workers\u2019 Party Organization and Guidance Department prepared a countermeasure plan which was approved by Kim Jong-un and issued as a guideline to local organizations across the country.<\/p>\n

The target of the crackdown is the youth. Through the Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il Youth League (Youth League), they have been informed that the \"Hallyu\" pollution among young people will be strictly dealt with. The Youth League is a youth organization under the Workers' Party and is composed of non-party members from the first year of upper secondary school (middle school is a six-year system) to just under 40 years of age. They include junior high school students, university students, workers, and unmarried women.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is even the slightest sign of a different element in our language, we will not tolerate it, but will definitely expose and criticize it in organizational ideological struggles and in general meetings of employees, residents, and students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will make it clear to our allies that the phenomenon of speaking in the language of the puppets and sending text messages will be labeled as a crime of reactionary ideological and cultural dissemination, an anti-national, anti-socialist crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Photo) The top underline instructs the government to take control of those returning from abroad without oversight, and the lower underline instructs the government to check the personal belongings of students as a countermeasure. Photographed by ASIAPRESS.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u25c6 Monitoring people returning from abroad and excluding them from higher education and military enlistment<\/h2>\n

\u201cIn the Youth League organizations, we will seize anyone who shows signs of imitating unusual speech and those who have been to other countries for study abroad, practical training, scientific research, for labour dispatch, etc., and take thorough measures to provide ideological education for these people, never overlooking the slightest instance of using puppet words and developing a strong organizational struggle to crush them at the first stage.<\/p>\n

The idea is to monitor those who have returned from China and other foreign countries and provide them with ideological education to prevent the spread of the \"Korean Wave\" in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Youth League will further strengthen its control over university students in cooperation with educational institutions, strictly control students in the general education sector (up to junior high school) not to carry cell phones as required by regulations, and take precise guidance and measures on youth students' personal belongings such as computers, cell phones, music notebooks, study books, etc., so that no puppet words can be used on them.\u201d <\/p>\n

This means that junior high school students should not be allowed to have cell phones, and that young people should be strictly checked to make sure that they do not have any Korean Wave-related materials in their possession.<\/p>\n

\u201cYouth League organizations and educational institutions that are tainted by the puppet culture will be unconditionally excluded from enlistment in the People\u2019s Army, recommendations for advanced schools, and award programs\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

There is also a strict measure to exclude young people who have been influenced by the Korean Wave from joining the military and going into higher education.The military service for men is compulsory (13 years in 2020), and there are many people who try to avoid it because of the poor working environment. However, military service is the essential career to enter society. In addition, if you are not allowed to join the military, you will not be able to join the Workers' Party or be placed in a job with good working conditions. Furthermore, if you are unable to pursue higher education, you will inevitably become a failure in North Korean society. <\/p>\n

Next Page: \u25c6Public trials and expulsion from the city...<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Photo) It says, \"We will organize a massive public campaign and conduct trials against the trash who are copying and imitating the words of the puppets, and their families will be banished from the city with strong legal sanctions.\u201d Photographed by ASIAPRESS.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u25c6Public trials and expulsion from the city<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe will organize a massive public campaign and trial against the trash who are copying and imitating the words of the puppets, and we will impose strong legal sanctions while expelling their families from the city and making the masses aware as well as imposing corresponding administrative and legal punishments on the responsible officials.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the children of city residents are found to be influenced by the \u201cKorean Wave,\u201d their families will be exiled to farming villages and rural areas making them jointly responsible, a measure which will cause great fear among North Koreans. <\/p>\n

The lowest class of people in North Korea are cooperative farmers. They are poor, under constant threat of hunger, and unable to make any progress. Once they are placed in a farming village, it is difficult for their children and grandchildren to escape their status as farm workers for generations to come.<\/p>\n

These \"Korean Wave clean-up operations\" have been put into practice. In order to prevent watching Korean dramas, the government mandated the installation of a \"barrier\" program on computers that blocks the playing of images that have not been approved by the government. Last year, a young man from Musan who watched foreign dramas committed suicide during his detention because he could not endure the harshness of the investigation. This is far from the only instance of such horror, with our reporting partners detailing many such examples during the \u201cKorean Wave clean-up.\u201d
\n(To be continued.)<\/p>\n

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