One of North Korea’s first acts after President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un signed the Singapore peace agreement has been a change in their propaganda.
Banners and posters displayed across the capital and other towns have typically featured the US as a brutal imperialist aggressor and South Korea or Japan as Washington’s willing allies.But visitors to the country say they’ve seen those posters replaced by propaganda pushing economic progress and the inter-Korean rapprochement.Leading newspapers in the tightly controlled country have also seen a shift in tone, a sign the country is starting to reflect its recent diplomatic thaw to the people.…”All the anti-American posters I usually see around Kim Il-sung Square and at shops, they’ve all just gone,” Rowan Beard, a tour manager at Young Pioneer Tours, told the Reuters news agency.“In five years working in North Korea, I’ve never seen them completely disappear before.”
So far, this is good news. Something happened in North Korea, and whatever that was, it's possibly going to work out well for everyone.
So long as Kim isn't assassinated, the program will go forward apace.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's a real risk.
Deleteas in all despotic dictatorships the true power is the secret police enforcers who diligently root out all and any opposition to the ruling members desires. i suppose that it was time for the re-approachment to happen now that all the opposing population and their supporters has died of starvation.
ReplyDeletebesides, what is the cost of a few posters? North Korea is what the democrats would like this country to be like. control the population with starvation. i bet they like that idea....