North Korean authorities have dispersed waste balloons for the ninth time this year. Meanwhile, North Korea is known to be asserting to its own citizens the legitimacy of the balloons being dispersed against South Korea.
According to Daily NK’s North Pyongan Province source on the 23rd, lectures explaining the facts and background of the anti-South Korean waste balloon scattering have been held frequently at factories and enterprises in some regions since the beginning of this month. Most of the places where the lectures were held are believed to be border areas adjacent to China.
It is said that the lecture materials used in the lecture included the following content: “The puppets who have turned into human garbage and loyal dogs of the United States are suitable for dung beetles. Let’s send a lot of filth to the Seoul area.”
North Korea reportedly did not specifically mention that the balloon scattering was due to anti-North Korea leaflets sent by defector groups. However, based on the use of expressions such as “human garbage” and “America’s loyal dog,” it appears to have subtly revealed that the reason for the balloon scattering lies with the South.
In particular, the expression ‘turned into a loyal dog of the United States’ is analyzed to be in line with the remarks made by Chairman Kim Jong-un at the expanded meeting of the 9th plenary session of the 8th Central Committee at the end of last year.
Chairman Kim said at the time, “It is not befitting our national dignity and status to discuss the unification issue with a strange group of people who are nothing more than American colonial pawns.” He added, “South Korea today is nothing more than a paralyzed, deformed, colonial vassal state where politics has completely disappeared, society as a whole is tainted by Yankee culture, and national defense and security are entirely dependent on the United States.”
He then advocated the so-called “two-state theory,” saying, “North-South (inter-Korean) relations are no longer relations of compatriots or homogeneity, but have completely become fixed as relations of two hostile countries, two belligerents at war.”
Furthermore, North Korea often uses the expression ‘puppet group’ when disparaging the South Korean government, so the fact that they lumped the term ‘puppets’ together this time is interpreted to mean that the filthy balloon is targeting not only the South Korean government but also the South Korean people.
It has also been reported that the lecture included a claim that the South had damaged the dignity of the Supreme Leader. In relation to this, the lecture material included the content, “We must continue to send waste to the puppets who touch the name of our Marshal (Chairman Kim) so that they will pick up the waste and collect it,” which is interpreted as an intention to provoke hostility toward the South among the local population.
“Lectures of this type are held continuously every morning before work begins,” the source said.
North Korea is not reporting on the fact that it is scattering waste balloons into the South through its domestic media, such as the Rodong Sinmun, which is currently available to its citizens. In this situation, in border areas where external information is relatively quickly available, they are preaching the legitimacy of scattering waste balloons through lectures and dominating public opinion within the country.
In fact, it has been reported that some residents in the border area of North Pyongan Province were already aware of the fact that Vice Department Director of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Yo-jong had made a statement regarding the scattering of sewage balloons.
The source said, “After these lectures were held for several days, some people said that Comrade Kim Yo-jong made relevant remarks to reflect the people’s feelings,” and “Since China is nearby, there are many stories to hear, so it seems that the government is concerned about the ideological transformation of its people and is holding these lectures.”
Source: www.dailynk.com
