Looking upon slogans promoting social unity and the greatness of the Kim family with a cynical eye is now common in North Korea.
North Koreans employ mimicry of these political slogans to explain their hardships or complain about their situation.
In theory done to instil loyalty in Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Eun, these pieces of propaganda are meant to relay the policies and demagoguery of the Chosun Workers’ Party. For instance, “What the Party decides, we do,” (created in the mid-1980’s) calls on all the people to unconditionally implement the decisions of the Party.
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“Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are a great sun for the people,” has been turned into “They are indeed the sun; if you go too close you burn to death and freeze if you go too far away.”
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