North Korean Propaganda Today
“Fight compulsion with hard hits, punishment with ruthless payback.” Source: AfterShock
While the North Koreans who grew up during the war are now middle-aged, their grandchildren are currently indoctrinated into anti-Americanism as early as kindergarten, if not sooner. In 2012, three Associated Press reporters were allowed into a kindergarten in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
They found shelves holding toy tanks and rifles, and walls decorated with the kids’ crayon drawings of North Korean soldiers killing American ones. They learned that, on the playground, “mignuk nom” (“American bastard”) is the worst taunt one can utter and that a common game is to attack a dummy of an American soldier with batons and stones. And, of course, they found propaganda posters (in addition to some of the ones above):
Whether North Korean propaganda's intended audience is children or adults, many of the fundamental messages remain the same:
