“In North Korea, a series was published, which is different from all previous ones.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
In North Korea, a series was published, which is different from all previous ones.
Kim Jong in acts differently / frame from the seriesThe North Korean leaders have long “fed” the population of propaganda, which draws the country as a utopian paradise. In their films, they show hard -working North Koreans who eat well and feel deeply devoted to the leadership.
Now that the North Koreans receive secret access to foreign news and entertainment, Kim Jong -in tests another tactic: televisions that reveal the weakness of the regime. The purpose is to manage the expectations of the population and mobilize it to overcome the numerous difficulties of the country, writes The Wall Street Journal.
The result was a new television projection, which honestly depicts everyday corruption, widespread in North Korea. Local officials assign grain, farmers do not fulfill their plans, and people bribe the management. The series also shows family conflicts – as opposed to the official line for family harmony.
According to state media reports, the series became a hit in a local audience. “The show seized the audience primarily because it was true,” the North Korean Monthly magazine said.
“We have never seen party and personal blades before,” said Associate Professor of Donseo University in South Korea, who studies Russia and North Korea, Chris Manday.
22-series series called “New Spring on the Pehek Plain” [англ. A New Spring in Paehaek Plain] He became the first new television project of Kim’s era since 2023. The Mission of North Korea at the UN refused to comment on this fact.
The New Spring Spring plot on the Pehek PlainThe plot is focused on an official of a labor party, which is fighting corruption and bureaucracy on the Pehek Farm in the west of the country to help the village to produce more harvest. His wife is disappointed, learning that the family is moving to the countryside, where infrastructure is poorly developed, and students have less chance of joining the university.
People give bribes for services, and one woman presses on the girl of her son, who from another social layer to leave him.
Such storylines raise the issues of social differences between the city and the village, as well as general distrust of corrupt party officials. Meanwhile, the series even has a romantic line – with flirting and broken hearts, which is unusual for North Korean television. Usually, the characters of the North Korean dramas express emotions only during the demonstration of the party’s devotion and its ideals.
The main characters use smartphones, and students trigger drones – technologies that are inaccessible to the majority of the population.
What is the meaning of the series for the DPRKThe series raises the difficulties of the country – from food instability to social differences – as a problem with which the recognizable, though imperfect, government. Analysts believe that such content reflects the wider efforts of Kim Jong in acknowledge weakness to preserve the legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
The media writes that, after the destructive floods last year, the North Korean dictator urged officials to “eradicate abuse of power, bureaucracy and illegal enrichment.” He publicly apologized for the lack of food and criticized officials for internal problems.
Unlike his father and grandfather, Kim uses “provocative” content to attract people’s attention to domestic programs and promise changes that improve living conditions, notes the researcher of North Korean culture at the University of Conkuk in Seoul Johnsun.
“This new type of content reflects Kim’s despair in the pursuit of change,” he says.
However, the show does not completely abandon traditional propaganda and, as before, depicts North Korea as a modern state – here and the prosperity of food, the construction of new homes, and communicating the population with each other with smartphones, and more.
Other news about North KoreaEarlier, UNIAN reported that Russia launched a passenger flight of Moscow-Pyongyan for the first time in a decade. The duration of the path is 8 hours. Ticket price started with 44,700 rubles (about 563 US dollars).
In addition, we said that the DPRK opened a mega resort for foreigners. There is everything you need to relax at the resort – a huge beach, many hotels, shopping malls with restaurants and even a water park, but there is a nuance.
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