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NKorean political slogans promote mushroom growth
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North Korea yesterday unveiled an exclamation mark-peppered list of 310 new political slogans covering every conceivable topic, from the glories of the ruling Kim dynasty and mushroom cultivation to the importance of dependable wives and the perennial need to wipe out the United States imperialist scum.
The slogans published yesterday by the official KCNA news agency were drafted by the ruling Worker’s Party of Korea to mark the 70th anniversaries its founding and of the liberation of the Korean peninsula from Japanese rule.
Their tone was by turns aggressive, encouraging, comforting and threatening, and the style ranged equally widely from the oddly poetic to the laboriously clunky.
“Make fruits cascade down and their sweet aroma fill the air on the sea of apple trees at the foot of Chol Pass!” was one agriculture-themed offering.
That was followed by: “Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms!” and “Grow vegetables extensively in greenhouses!”
Prominence was given to a section of slogans hailing late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and urging loyalty to Kim Jong Un.
Others covered military strength, the economy, farming, science and technology, education, the arts and sports.
Some, like “Play sports games in an offensive way!” underlined the potential pitfalls of translating pithy ideology.
Some defector-run websites carry reports of how slogans have become the butt of private jokes among ordinary North Koreans who often amend them to reflect reality.
The 1998 slogan “Though the road ahead may be perilous, let’s travel it laughing!” was changed to “Let them laugh as they go, why are they making us come too?”
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