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26 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
An antiquated book and a mis-titled article:

Luxury, but little sex appeal: How Kim Jong Un is transforming North Korean pop
Music professor Keith Howard’s new book digs into how North Korean songs have changed under various Kims
nknews.org/2020/11/luxury…
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2/For someone "interested in being able to meet musicians, scholars, artists, dancers to find out how they perceive things" why no mention of DPRK rock music?🤔

“This is the first ROCK SONG in North Korea that is recorded in 2007 PyongYang.” - F. Sueyoshi
3/As a half-Asian guy myself whose first wife was 100% Japanese, I can authoritatively say that if Luz Ding, or whoever penned the title "Luxury, but little sex appeal", sees no sex appeal in the shoulders and thighs of Kang Ryong-hui (Electric Guitar) and Jon Hye-ryon (Bass), Image
4/he's either gay or libidinally challenged. In following Ri Sol-ju's fashion lead, women's clothing styles are more modest than Western styles. When Moranbong Band rocks thigh-high dresses or uniforms wearing pumps they resurrect "sex appeal" from the mud of Western decadence.☮️

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28 Nov
"Luxury, but little sex appeal". Are you sure about that? Caption should be: "Molten red-hot sex appeal".
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2/Continuing the theme of there being "red-hot sex appeal" among DPRK's elite music and dance performers to bury the misogynist lie of there being "little sex appeal" among the women of DPRK: ImageImageImageImage
3/Screen-grabs are from: [Tap dance] "Youthful Days" (Wangjaesan) {DPRK Music} on YouTube ImageImageImageImage
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26 Nov
@chadocl Keith Howard: "Moranbong disappeared for a while, and when they came back, they started to wear military uniforms. The makeup was gone. The jewelry was gone. So, you’re back to being sort of more orthodox.
 
We’re seeing, right now, another experiment with moving away from the
@chadocl 2/"old into something more contemporary. North Korea is rejecting itself.”

Keith Howard did his research in North Korea in 1992 and 2000. It has taken him 25 years to do this book. This book belongs to the category of "Obsolete".

“So, I was interested in being able to meet
@chadocl 3/"musicians, scholars, artists, dancers to find out how they perceive things and how they talked about things…"

The only problem is that Keith Howard last intermingled with North Koreans 20 and 28 years ago respectively. Here's what isn't included in his book:
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Being a teenager in Hawaii and going to a great high school, camping and surfing with friends on the weekends, looking forward to college and beyond…Was nice. And then, I wonder - What’s it like for a teenager in North Korea doing the same? Going to a
2/great school, hanging out with your friends everyday, learning to play rock music on guitar or the drums, looking forward to college and beyond?

“This is the first ROCK SONG in North Korea that is recorded in 2007 PyongYang.” - F. Sueyoshi
3/I don't have to wonder any more thanks to the legendary Funky Sueyoshi who has brought his love of music to North Korea and made teen-age disciples of rock-n-roll.

Pyongyang:Slapping Bass - North Korea 北朝鮮でチョッパー·ベース(平壌の世界201)
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“Parties to an armed standoff are unlikely to holster or discard their weapons before they are confident they will not need them…” - Henri Feron

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3/A realistic solution to the security crisis in Korea involves seeing the horses pulling the carriage👇as the agreed-on peace agreement, the passengers as the international community enjoying security and the carriage driver as the negotiating parties.
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