Propaganda in North Korea (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The propaganda in North Korea is extensively based on the Juche ideology to promote the Workers' Party of Korea line. From its beginning to this day the propaganda is omnipresent. In previous decades, North Korean propaganda was crucial to the formation and promotion of the personality cult centred around the founder of the communist state, Kim Il Sung. Every year, a state-owned publishing house releases several cartoons (called geurim-chaek in North Korea), many of which are smuggled across the Chinese border and, sometimes, end up in university libraries in the United States. The books are designed to instill the Juche philosophy of Kim Il-sung (the 'father' of North Korea)-radical self-reliance of the state. The plots mostly feature scheming capitalists from the United States and Japan who create dilemmas for naive North Korean characters.