North Korean State Media Deletes All Articles with the Word Unification In It
Orwell would be impressed by how North Korea is using their version of the “Ministry of Truth” to scrub their state media to create a new reality for their citizens:
North Korea has removed articles with unification references from the website of its state-run media outlet, after leader Kim Jong-un called South Korea the North’s “primary foe” and vowed not to seek unification with the South.
As of Monday, a majority of the articles containing references to unification, such as “peaceful reunification,” “great national unity” and “northern half,” appear to have been deleted from the website of the North’s Korean Central News Agency.
The move came as Kim has defined inter-Korean ties as relations between “two states hostile to each other” during a year-end party meeting.
Korea Herald
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In Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, it was the pigs running the farm… So a very apt comparison, CH…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svi0jrOeQoU
This is kind of a good thing, in my opinion. Previously DPRK had the ultimate goal of unification under the DPRK banner. Now they publicly acknowledging that that’s never going to happen. Of course they didn’t have to shift to the status of “two states hostile to each other”, but you know, DPRK’s gonna do what they do. It would be better if they just accepted that themselves and the ROK are two independent states, and maybe try to normalize relations within that status, as much as they can. They can maintain the US as the great Satan if they still need a boogyman to blame for all their problems.