Kim Il-sung’s, “rich and powerful country”
by Richardson ~ July 11th, 2007. Filed under: History, North Korea.Do North Korean’s know what an actual, “rich and powerful country” is? As the Rodong Shinmun can publish this and not incite a revolution, it seems the answer is no:
Rodong Sinmun in an editorial entitled “Let’s successfully accomplish the great leader’s cause of building a rich and powerful country” lauds him as a peerless national hero and patriot as he considered it as his lifelong cause to build a rich and powerful country and performed epoch-making immortal feats in the course of the struggle to accomplish it.
It was the greatest historical feat performed by him that he brought about a fundamental turn in carving out the destiny of the country and the nation despite all storms and stresses and set an example of the times in building a rich and powerful country, the editorial notes, and goes on:
The President gave comprehensive and perfect theoretical and practical solutions to all the problems arising in the revolution and construction in our times ranging from the line and policies at every stage of the struggle for building a rich and powerful country to the tasks in the fields of politics, military affairs, economy, science and technology and culture.
Read the rest at the KCNA.


July 11th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Clearly, one thing the DPRK is not short of is crack for its newspaper editors to smoke.
July 11th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
U-mul an-aie Kaegorie.
July 11th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Hey, the people need to look forward to something, even if it is chasing rainbows looking for the pot of gold at the end.
July 11th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
This is the great weakness of the alternate reality the Kims have constructed; it keeps them in power, unless the people learn about it, and then it means the end of the regime completely.
And I guess North Korea is sort of known for its drug trade.
[Note for non-Korean speakers, “U-mul an-aie Kaegorie” means, “frog in a well,” the idiom referring to those with a constrained – on purpose or not – worldview.]
July 12th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Like Plato’s allegory of the cave?
July 12th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Yes, exactly so.