Thread by @BonicMichael

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

4/audiences. After Un A was censored, Jin Hui, who speaks flawless Russian in “Jin Hui’s Story” Parts 1 & 2 speaks in characteristic North Korean British English in Part 3, saying: “I think we will get to know each other better through further communication and exchanges."

5/When Jin Hui says, “This is the truth”, and leads us on a tour to see DPRK, Pyongyang & its citizens as they really are, which is NEVER done in Western media, the Western narrative is undercut. I’ll give a point to Amp. Robert King for highlighting the fact that the “ideas and

6/influence” in North Korea’s latest Vlogs - stylish & creative vehicles of International Public Relations & SNS influencing reflecting North Korea's "keeping up w/ the world" - indeed threaten the Western narrative by exposing its falsehood. The remedy is simple: CENSORSHIP!!

7/

8/“The exposure to ideas, language, and values from abroad helps to transform the way in which North Koreans view themselves, their society, and the wider world.”

“North Korea ranked 179th out of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index, which says “the totalitarian regime

9/"continues to keep its citizens in a state of ignorance.””

Ignorance is dispelled by University education, Dance & Music School & cultural assimilation from w/in DPRK's borders, following Kim Jong Il's maxim: to "plant feet in our land, and lift eyes to see the world."

10/Here are Western dance music hits DPRK choreographers created lyrical dances to during NK's "exposure to ideas, language, & values from abroad" in 1980s:

Let's Rock Around The Clock With Bill Haley & His Comets & North Korea's Wangjaesan Dance Troupe

11/North Korea, 1980s, Lyrical Dancing: Wangjaesan Dance Troupe

12/This statement is propaganda 👉: “the totalitarian regime continues to keep its citizens in a state of ignorance.” Really? The Pyongyang University of Music & Dance is a bastion of higher learning in the high culture of Music & Dance. I'll venture to
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang…

13/more than a few graduates went on to become North Korean superstars of Moranbong Band or Wangjaesan Dance Troupe . When Moranbong Band performs👇:

Moranbong Band - Medley of world famous songs 2013

the audience is hearing State-approved "high culture"

14/sourced from abroad. The knowledge & musical skill required to perform these songs masterfully by Moranbong Band obliterates the ignorance of the above statement:

"We have nothing to envy in this world (세상에 부럼없어라)
Music: Kim Hyok (김혁) 1961
DPRK

When a child was

15/"born (아이가 태여났을 때)
Music: Ciro Dammicco 1972
Italy (Soleado) or USA (When a child is born). The origin of this might simply be the Paul Mauriat recording.

Love is blue (사랑은 푸르다)
Music: André Popp 1967
France

Rondo alla turca (뛰르끼예 행진곡)
Music: Wolfgang

16/"Amadeus Mozart 1783
Austria

The sacred war (정의의 싸움)
Music:Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov 1941
Russia

Song of Moscow (모스크바 노래)
Music:Aleksandra Pakhmutova 1985
Text: Nikolai Dobronravov
Theme song "You're my hope, you're my joy" from the movie "Battle of Moscow"

17/"Isle of Capri (카프리섬)
Music: Wilhelm Grosz 1934

Autumn leaves (락엽)
Music: Joseph Kosma 1945
France

A maiden's prayer (처녀의 기도)
Music: Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska 1856
Poland

North Wind Blowing (북풍이 불어온다)
Music: Trad.
The most famous song from the

18/"revolutionary ballet "The white haired girl".
China"
...
That's just half the songs performed in the concert.

How is it that Kang Ryong Hui 👇is ripping on electric

Rocky Theme performed in North Korea - Moranbong Band (Musically & visually enhanced)

19/guitar wearing a long white dress performing to Rocky Theme as Sylvester Stallone runs across the Jumbotron in a concert performed for Kim Jong Un & Ri Sol Ju??

Western fusion/rock

Moranbong Band & SMC Performance On Successful Second ICBM Test-fire

20/was brought into vogue by Moranbong Band. Western fusion rock by itself is shunned by the State, but when this style is used in concert performances in songs that lift up the State & ideology it finds proper cultural appropriation, while allowing the musicians to creatively

21/explore & enjoy playing music. This is how DPRK lifts eyes to see the world, & picks & chooses what high culture to appropriate into its evolving contemporary Juche ideology "in keeping with the times".

Moranbong Band - Medley of Disney Songs

22/👆This was in Moranbong Band's debut concert coincideing w/ Ri Sol Ju's first public appearance as First Lady & it was American Culture Overload performed to DPRK elite, including Frank Sinatra's My Way. I call that: "exposure to ideas, language, and values from abroad".

23/Moranbong Band's Debut Concert - 06 / 07 / 2012
"Singers - Pak Mi-Kyong, Kim Sol-Mi, Jong Su-Hyang, Kim Yu-Kyong, Ryu Jina (Quintet)

세상은 좁아 - It's a small world
Singers - Quintet

톰과 제리 - Tom and Jerry

온젠가 굼속에서 - Once upon a Dream
Origin - Sleeping Beauty

24/"Singers - Quintet

곰아저씨 뿌 - Winnie the Pooh
Singers - Ryu Jina

비비디바비디부 - Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo
Origin - Cinderella
Singers - Jong Su-Hyang, Kim Yu-Kyong

미키 마우스 행진곡 - The Mickey Mouse Club
Singers - Quintet

꼼은 마음속으로 바라는것 - A Dream is a Wish

25/"Your Heart Makes
Origin - Cinderella
Singers - Quintet

미인과 야수 - Beauty and the Beast
Singers - Kim Yu-Kyong, Ryu Jina

언젠가는 나의 왕자님이 찾아오리 - When You Wish Upon a Star
Origin - Snow White
Singers - Quintet

백설공주와 일곱난쟁이 - Snow White and the Seven

26/"Dwarfs
Singers - Quintet

백소의 호수 - Swan Lake

세상은 좁아 - It's a Small World
Singers - Quintet"

This concert debunks the Western narrative that the DPRK fears information from "the outside world". Music, dance and international culture is taught and learned in North

27/Korea's K - U education system in such a way that allows for approved acculturation of Western and other cultures by the maxim: "plant feet in our land, and lift eyes to see the world" while remaining faithful to the ideology of socialism.

The War On The Rocks piece severely

28/mischaracterizes North Korea, misrepresents its people & is outright propagandistic at times. DPRK is a Socialist country that eschews the moral decadence of the Western

Wangjaesan Art Troupe - 走っていこう未来へ / 달려가자 미래로 / Dash to the future

29/world. It's a slippery slope from K-pop to crotch-grabbing on stage, twerking, WAP & pole dancing. DPRK values high culture, believes in "One for all & all for one", adheres to Socialism and is more socially cohesive K-U than the US will ever be.

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1419511992692273157?s=20

30/And w/ a burgeoning women's fashion design industry 👆 supported by Ri Sol Ju, North Korean women's fashion design led by a young generation of fashion designers will grab the world's attention. DPRK has better ideas than what it sees paraded in the world where $$$ rules all.

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