Leaflets discovered at a South Korean border town contained cartoon images showing South Korean President Park Geun-hye wearing a bikini and falling headfirst into a slop bucket.
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The messages are clearly aimed at the South Korean public, the ones most likely to stumble upon these flyers.
North Korea’s relationship with Beijing was cemented during the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty. He has since dedicated himself to sending the same sort of rhetoric north of the border to urge commoners to rise against the Kim dynasty.
Kim is also allegedly responsible for the planting of land mines inside the demilitarized zone last summer, which left two South Korean patrol guards maimed. As the then leader-in-waiting, Kim Jong-un lacked leadership experience, such a display of technical achievement provided a stable moral platform for Jong-un to assume leadership.
South Korea resumed blaring propaganda messages from loudspeakers across the border into the DPRK, which in turn, restarted its own propaganda broadcasts in response.
They are quintessentially North Korean, the sort of language you see in their media and propaganda, right down to details like the colours and quality of paper used. About 28,500 American troops are deployed in South Korea as deterrence against North Korea.
Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the test “will certainly allow North Korea to increase the sophistication of its nuclear arsenal – specifically, to make the nuclear bombs smaller and lighter”. The tests, whether real or not, show a North Korea running out of friends and options.
“Since the first related news report, the North Korean military is spreading leaflets on nearly a daily basis”, Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said at a press briefing. In 2013, it turned to sexist taunts against Park, complaining about the “venomous swish” of her skirt for opposing its third nuclear test.
Shigeo Iizuka, the 76-year-old head of the Kazoku Kai (Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea), said he hoped that “pressure from the United Nations would push North Korea to move things forward” in resolving the issue dating to the 1970s and ’80s.
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The source said UN’s decision was another sign that the North’s diplomatic isolation has been deepening since its January 6 nuclear test. “It’s time we step up our campaign and the government step up its campaign, too”.
