Amazing similarity between Watchtower Society and DPRK (N. Korean regime)!

by seattleniceguy 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  seattleniceguy

  So I was reading my favorite North Korean propaganda database site the other day and...oh, sorry, you didn't know about the site? It's at:
  http://www.nk-news.net/index.php

  Do check it out. There nearly 40,000 articles from the North Korean Ministry of Information that are simply over the top. Check out this snippet:

  Pyongyang, July 29 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, inspected a sub-unit of KPA Unit 821 on the frontline. He was greeted on the spot by commanding officers of the unit and the sub-unit.

  ...

  He was greatly satisfied to learn that the servicepersons of the unit, firmly equipped with the Party's Juche-oriented war methods, have turned their defence theatre into an impregnable fortress with the noble patriotic determination to devotedly defend the socialist homeland by force of arms and burning hatred for the U.S. imperialist aggressors.

  Wow! Now that's what I call writin'! But wait, there's more. The site even has a random insult generator that will hit you with actual pieces of fiery denunciation from the DPRK!

  But back to the story. So I was reading their FAQ page and I found this nugget:

  [Question:] When I go to view the full text of an article, a pop-up window appears displaying the article on the official KCNA site itself. Why not just show the full article here?

  The full-text article is not displayed at this site because of (brace yourself for massive irony)...copyright laws!

  Yes, that’s right, the most fiercely Marxist-Leninist nation on Earth guards its own statements by invoking laws designed to protect property rights and imperialist profit margins. While at the KCNA site, scroll down on any article and you’ll see a copyright stamp at the bottom. While researching, I found out that some site was posting KCNA articles prior to K.N.S’s own postings, which started in Dec ’96. K.N.S. tried to find out who it was and shut them down. Since the K.N.S. is little more than a mouthpiece for the Kim regime, this is akin to a U.S. President copyrighting his State of the Union address, and then shutting down anyone who posts it for critique or satire.

  Does this sound familiar? Perhaps a little like the Watchtower Society suing a site that provides snippets of its own "life-giving" literature for research purposes?

  Funny how similar these guys are in both words and deeds!

  SNG
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  Narkissos

  Great find SNG.

  Would be really funny were it not so sad.

  Quite interesting how propaganda can keep the stylistic marks of an ideology's founding time. Rutherford and Stalin were contemporaries.
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  lawrence

  SNG-

  Excellent post!

  Narkissos-

  I often would laugh about Joe Stalin and Joe Rutherford in the same breath, but SNG's post makes the two sound like a common image. Just change the ISMs terminology and it all sounds the same.
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  seattleniceguy

  Narkissos,

  Quite interesting how propaganda can keep the stylistic marks of an ideology's founding time. Rutherford and Stalin were contemporaries.

  Man, is that ever true. The stuff on that site is unbelievably similar to old Watchtower stuff. Check out this handling of North Korean apostates:

  Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- The chief executive of the United States was reported to have met daily Chosun Ilbo journalist Kang Chol Hwan, an alleged defector from the north, at the White House on June 15 and talked about "human rights situation" in the DPRK. Explicitly speaking, we do not know such word as "defector".
  If there be any, they are just a handful of hooligans and criminals who are not in a position to look up at the clear blue sky over the country with an easy mind for the crimes committed against it and its people.
  It is hard to expect to hear anything from such human scum and we, therefore, do not care at all about whatever nonsense they talk. Given the fact that the chief executive of the world's only "superpower" did sit face to face with such a human trash and conferred with him over "human rights performance" and other "serious matters," it is not hard to guess the political level and stature of the present U.S. administration.
  There are American military deserters in the DPRK, too, but we do not use them for a political purpose. Yet, the authorities of the U.S. ill-famed for the worst human rights abuses are resorting to such clumsy propaganda.
  The present U.S. administration orchestrated such poor farce as the White House boss's "interview with the north Korean defector." This goes to prove that it is a group of wicked elements who do not bother to meet even good-for-nothing to serve its sinister political purpose, regardless of whether this behavior suits its stature and authority or not.
  What matters here is why they are making such painstaking efforts and spending precious time for such a cheap charade.

  Here's an interesting snippet about a monument to their political party:

  Pyongyang, October 6 (KCNA) -- An increasing number of people visit the Monument to Party Founding with the approach of the 60th birthday of the Workers' Party of Korea (October 10). The monument, located in central part of Munsu Street of Taedonggang District, Pyongyang, was erected to convey to the rising generations the great exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung in the cause of building the Juche-oriented revolutionary party.
  According to Ri Ok Hui, a section chief of the management office of the monument, the visitors to the monument-- servicepersons, working people from all walks of life, youth, students and schoolchildren across the country-- total more than 3,078,000 after it was unveiled on the occasion of the Party's 50th birthday.
  During the last decade over 178,500 south Koreans, overseas compatriots and foreigners have also called at it.
  This shows the deep trust of the Korean people and world progressives in the WPK, the ever-victorious revolutionary party of Juche, founded by President Kim Il Sung and led by Kim Jong Il.

  You know what this really reminds me of is that film they made in the 1950s, called something like, "The New World Society in Action." It's out in video form (from the WT Society, which apparently doesn't notice how ridiculous it is), and it is a veritable banquet of this style of propaganda.

  Whew! This stuff blows my mind. Here's hoping that the people trapped in cults of all types find mental freedom.

  SNG
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  tfsm

  Yeah, but at least Kim is kind of lovable in his own scary way.
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  lawrence

  tfsm-

  Lovable to whom?
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  tfsm

  Sorry, I just can't think about the little guy without smiling since I saw that movie the South Park guys did. Team America World Police. Don't watch it around the kids.