Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Pyongyang's True Ideology -- A Commentary
From The Wall Street Journal:
North Korea is no communist state.
How long will the U.S. and its allies keep misperceiving North Korea as a communist state? For decades the regime in Pyongyang has preached the racial superiority of the Korean people, and still the red label sticks. Now the country is in the throes of a massive military propaganda campaign exhorting its citizens to increase productivity not to better the people's lives, but to strengthen national defenses against the racial enemy -- "the Yankee beasts in human masks," as North Korean television news put it last week. If Washington doesn't recognize Kim Jong Il's regime for what it is -- a hardline nationalist state -- it will make dangerous policy miscalculations.
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My Comment: Nationalism has always been a part of the Korean psyche .... and yes .... the North Koreans have been masters at manipulating this sentiment for he past 5 decades.
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