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3 Aug, 11 tweets, 6 min read
Socialist DPRK, professional Vlogging & relationship building

“Hi. Did you enjoy “Jon Hui’s Album Part 1 and Part 2”?
I think we will get to know each other better through further communication and exchanges.”

Jin Hui Story part 3 (Jin Hui's Photo Album)
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4/In Jin Hui's first 2 Vlogs she speaks perfect Russian. In "Jin Hui's Story part 3 (Jin Hui's Photo Album)" the theme of the Photo Album is continued w/ a flawless segue (and pivot) to English-speaking audiences. State-run Sogwang Media Corp has a team
5/of video & social media savvy professionals who went into a huddle after Un A (& Echo of Truth) were CENSORED by Google (so much for "freedom of speech" in America), thus torpedoing that arm of international PR outreach to English-speaking audiences. Shifting to Jin Hui DPRK
6/has revamped it's PR campaign to English-speaking audiences using the Photo Album theme, a really creative feat of international PR akin to a choreographed dance move! Of course Western media's knee-jerk reaction is that any video with a script is “propaganda” if it originates
7/from State-run media like Sogwang Media Corp, but that's really "the pot calling the kettle black".👇:

North Korean propaganda is making its presence known on Chinese social media lately, with aggressive campaigns highlighting everything from state
nknews.org/2020/08/north-…
8/North Korea produces new vanity vlogs in social media propaganda comeback
State media-linked Weibo, Twitter accounts imitate online influencers to burnish country’s reputation abroad
nknews.org/2021/08/north-…
9/"Actually, I was planning to end my photo story at part two. But I prepared part three for those who are interested in my photo album."

In two lines Jin Hui has taken Un A's role in building a relationship w/ the English-speaking Western world.
10/Jin Hui's tee shirt during table tennis had the🇰🇵, which might elicit the Pavlovian response of "Propaganda!" from Western analysts. She's simply a DPRK patriot helping her country be better understood.

The Communicative Power of the Photo Album & Vlog
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5 Aug
GETTING OUTSIDE INFORMATION PAST BIG BROTHER IN NORTH KOREA
warontherocks.com/2021/08/gettin…
(Is as hard as getting North Korea’s latest stylish & creative Vlogs by North Korean elite, A-team member & linguist extraordinaire Jin Hui saying "This is the truth" past Big Brother in the USA.)
2/Commentary:
“Amb. Robert King…writes that North Korea’s efforts to restrict access to outside ideas and influence “reflects Kim Jong-un’s conviction that foreign media represents a significant challenge to his totalitarian regime.”
Partly true. North Korean Vogger Un A & her
3/YouTube channel were CENSORED by Google’s CEO. And just today Jin Hui’s YouTube channel, Sonamu TV, was “terminated for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines”. Like Un A, Jin Hui is a member of North Korea’s elite, part of their A-team in North Korea’s outreach to foreign
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4 Aug
[Decoded]: North Korean multilingual extraordinaire Jin Hui👇enrolled by State-run Sogwang Media Corp to spearhead English-language PR outreach via stylistic SNS Vlog. Pivoting fom Russian in 1st 2 Vlogs, Jin Hui replaces Un A, who was censored by Google, using Photo Album theme. Image
2/Conditioned Pavlovian Western media response: "North Korean PROPAGANDA now emulating SNS Vlogging targeting younger audience to burnish DPRK's image abroad." Look up "propaganda". "Jin Hui's Story" is a State-created Vlog, but that doesn't automatically make it propaganda.
3/By that def you'd have to concede VOA as being propaganda. But DPRK isn't a capitalist country using private enterprise & freedom of the press. A proletariat government controls production & the media, which isn't necessarily or intrinsically bad. If fact, US should emulate
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4 Aug
John Lee purports that "South Korean pop music & television dramas" "terrify the North Korean regime [more than] American military might or South Korean spies". Yet in the "war of ideas" DPRK follows Socialism wherein the proletariat trumps the bourgeoise.
nknews.org/2021/08/north-…
2/He says: “The people were isolated from foreign information and ideas and the elites got to stay in power.”

Wangjaesan Dance Troupe dancing to Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock is proof positive that DPRK studies & assimilates foreign high culture
3/from within its borders

The DPRK in reality isn't a hermit kingdom but a socialist nation following Kim Jong-il's maxim to "plant feet in our land, and lift eyes to see the world."
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4 Aug
A lesson on causality: By maintaining the line "that we cannot accept a nuclear North Korea":
1) You are twice the idiot for thinking/believing NK will capitulate to CVID
2) Close the door to DPRK negotiating a Maximum limit to # of nukes & ICBMs
3) Leave to door open to NK
2/NK pushing for Maximum nuclear deterrence. SLBM will certainly follow. Why? B/c NK "sleeps better at night" knowing it has a nuclear deterrent that'll keep US from attacking. This translated into SECOND STRIKE CAPABILITY.
4/Are the world's biggest hypocrite. Does Washington
3/suffer from psychogenic amnesia forgetting John Bolton has advocated US doing a preemptive nuclear first strike on NK? You don't counter that w/ CVID but by developing 2nd-strike capability.

I have read the tea leaves & conclude: US-NK relations will remain stagnant to 2024.✌️
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3 Aug
Socialist Art: "Woman Builder" by Kim Guang Chol.
This painting by North Korean artist Kim Guang Chol shows the prominent role women play in throughout DPRK society, who alongside w/ the men are building a Socialist economy in accord w/ the collective principles of Juche.
2/Just as American women played important roles during World War II (👇), North Korean women play equally vital roles in North Korea TODAY in every aspect of DPRK society, reflecting the preeminence in Socialism of the "dictatorship of the proletariat".
3/The proletariat are "working people". In the DPRK there are 3 main "classes" of people: Workers (hammer), farmers (sickle) & intellectual class (calligraphy brush). There is solidarity among the 3 classes & the WPK works for the welfare of everyone: "One for all & all for one."
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3 Aug
A Window into the Art of North Korea:
Meet the Prominent Italian Dealer Who Buys and Sells North Korean Art
architecturaldigest.com/story/prominen…
“In Pontassieve, a small town outside of Florence, Pier Luigi Cecioni sits on a veritable treasure trove: around 300 works of North Korean art,
2/"spanning paintings, posters, embroidery, and woodcuts, purchased well before the U.N. tightened its sanctions on North Korean export in 2017.

“My position is that I deal only with the art of North Korea, not with its government,” he says...“When I hold exhibitions of North
3/"art, many Westerners are surprised that North Korean artists even exist— Art has always been a great vehicle of understanding a situation that is usually presented only through stereotypes. I think that meeting through art, as through sports, might favor peace.”
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