mping along under a succession of hard-men dictators, but is out of the question now as South Korea has turned itself into a cultural and economic powerhouse.
These findings were reported to North Korea’s top leadership, and Kim Jong Un — who has been personally involved in this issue since last year, ordering the strategic shift — recently called young South Koreans “foreign youth who are no longer the same people as us and who can never be on our side.”
Kim views young South Koreans’ disinterest in reunification not as a simple opinion change but as justification for North Korea to abandon ethnic unity and adopt a “two hostile nations” strategy. He called for using this disinterest as crucial evidence supporting the party’s policy to make the “hostile division” of the two Koreas permanent.
“Outdated approaches based on ethnic unity will fail,” Kim said, urging officials to “boldly burn old reunification slogans and launch new psychological warfare operations tailored to generational and cultural changes.” He specifically instructed officials “not to even use the word reunification and adopt terms that encourage psychological distance.”
Following these orders, the Institute of Enemy State Studies has dropped terms related to inter-Korean cooperation or reunification from existing propaganda materials and begun developing indoctrination content that emphasizes “cultural and genetic differences.” Researchers have even proposed the novel approach of describing young South Koreans as “biologically foreigners who mimic the Korean language but have completely different identities.”
It's typical of North Korean propaganda – obsessed with racial purity – to emphasise "genetic differences", and claim that South Koreans are now “biologically foreigners".
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