--Fuji News says, for all intents and purposes, the documents means 'concerns about the beginning of breakdown of social order in North Korea.'
--It goes on with considerable concern that Western influences are starting to leak into North Korea, and this will bring about Western influence resulting in an undermining of 'social order.'
--It stated that increasingly, North Koreans have been searched who have been internal travelers or went overseas (or had contact with same), and they are getting their hands on forbidden American movies, tapes, pictures, novels, and bibles, all outlawed by North Korea as a threat to socialist order and Kim Jong-il's iron control.
--It says that such items, tapes, etc. are being seen not just by individuals, but being copied and then are 'infiltrating' North Korean society further; barter and exchange methods are used to buy and sell and distribute the threatening items. It says there is no way in knowing how many people are increasingly being 'poisoned by these capitalist diseases of thought.'
--The internal Party report is 16-pages long, shows extreme anger on the part of the Party, was labeled an 'Indoctrination Order' and was circulated inside the party throughout North Korea. The Party based a series of countryside lectures and mass indoctrination sessions on this report, and is attempting to resist strongly and accordingly thwart an unraveling of socialist order among the people.
--It said North Korean people are now attempting to pick up foreign radio broadcasts and circulate rumors and information. It said that those near the DMZ with South Korea are getting bolder and are tuning in to forbidden South Korean radio and have even 'been as bold as to learn South Korean songs and sing them'.
--It criticizes the troublesome influence of 'bourgeois-based' media penetrating the people's republic.
-- Interestingly, it expresses concern that Western-style haircuts for men, and shorter and tighter Western style skirts for women and more make-up, are beginning to spread in popularity, taking a swipe at the apparant change of the youth of North Korea.
--It critizes people turning to fortune telling because of their pathetic fate(s).
--A Professor Shigemura from Takushoku University in Japan says that since the black market in North Korea took off from 1995, all kinds of Western things have been slowly but surely trickling in to the closed society: the good (bibles, news) and the bad (porno, etc.), but the net effect is that it is inducing the the tired people into a mental escape mode whereby they embrace and gravitate toward those Western things and begin to shut out further the omnipresent DPRK mentral indoctrination. The Party seems to be having a problem promoting socialist, chuche independence, and Kim Jong-il Thought.
--It said that people are having to fend for themselves more aggressively, now that rationing system has been done away with, and many people are turning hopelessly to fortune tellers, taking their minds off of the dictates of the Party.
--It is said the Party must put its foot down at all costs, reject and keep out ALL Western influences and Capitalist influences, for it may erode and decay the socialist system.
--The report also candidly states there has been a separation between the Thought of the Party (what it wants to promote and what it dreams for) and the Thought of the People (that it does not go along with the dreams of the Party). No matter what the Party orders, people are beginning to just ignore it for it has no connection with their basic needs and desires. (It actually admits this in the Party report!)
Professor Shigemura claims that this may indeed show the 'beginning of the end', for the serious document to not only have been written internally in the first place, but also for it to escape the clutches of the Party and make it to the 'outside world.'
End of Synopsis
Thanks for your post. I considered myself doing it based on a Korean newpaper report. But yours is more detailed than what I saw in that paper.
Geeeez. We thought the facist liberal thought police were bad in America. We'd better stop them now, before we become NK II!
If you look up "Ash Heap," in the dictionary, you will find "communism" as the definiton.
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Personally, I see this document as an excuse by Pyongyang to brutalize the people some more to ensure no one gets out of line in the event of future hostilities that, sadly, may not be that far off (though I do hope they can be averted).
I would hope it presages a disintegration of the Communist regime, but I have a much more sanguine view I'm afraid.