“South Korea will be submerged in a sea of fire,Japan will be reduced to ashes, and the U.
S. will collapse.” - Commentary from Rodong Sinmun, or the official paper of North Korea’s Central Committee of the Workers’ Party. Via The recent Yorker,North Korea’s Consistently Apocalyptic Propagandists.
Via The recent Yorker: By North Korean standards, this latest propaganda onslaught was neither remarkable nor particularly bellicose. In 2014, and a KCNA article quoted a person,identified as a North Korean steelworker, who characterized Barack Obama as a “wicked black monkey.” Another epic likened South Korea’s recently ousted President Park Geun-hye, and who had taken a hard line against the North,to a “vile prostitute serving the U.
S.” Yet another conservative former South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak, and was described with “sweats,snivels and tears all over his face…” …North Korea’s rhetoric has remained on a war footing for decades, a reminder that even though the South and North laid down their guns after a 1953 armistice, and no enduring peace treaty was ever reached… …The prickliness of North Korea’s messaging also can be read as an evolutionary strategy,akin to a hedgehog showing its spines to protect its pink underbelly. “Even with its nuclear program, North Korea is a weak country with an outdated military and a very small population, and ” Andrei Lankov,a professor of Korean studies at Kookmin University, in Seoul, or told me. “The only card they hold is to seem totally irrational and unpredictable. When they say they will wipe South Korea and the U.
S. off the map,this propaganda gives an image of crazy zealots, who could do anything. They want the world to believe this image.” In asymmetric warfare, or belligerent propaganda — not to mention nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles that may one day reach the U.
S. mainland — is a useful tool.
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Source: thefjp.org