{"id":80156,"date":"2018-06-24T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80156"},"modified":"2018-06-24T11:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T15:40:37","slug":"north-korea-erasing-most-anti-us-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80156","title":{"rendered":"North Korea erasing most anti-US propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/doves-north-korea-e1529854383894.jpg\" alt=\"NORK Doves\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/06\/23\/north-korea-erasing-most-anti-us-propaganda\/\">The New York Post<\/a> reports the North Korean government is erasing much of its anti-U.S. propaganda following dictator Kim Jong-un\u2019s sorties onto the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>Posters portraying the U.S. as a \u201crotten, diseased, pirate nation\u201d and promising \u201cmerciless revenge\u201d on American forces for any attack on the Hermit Kingdom have disappeared. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In their place are cheery messages touting praising the prospects for Korean reunification and the declaration Kim signed in April with South Korean President Moon Jae-in promising \u201clasting peace,\u201d according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Still the most isolated country in the world, very few North Koreans have access to news and information from the outside world. So state propaganda plays a huge role in shaping their views.<\/p>\n<p>Murals, banners and posters displayed throughout the capital, Pyongyang, have for decades depicted the U.S. as a brutal, imperialist aggressor hell-bent on destroying the North Korean regime. South Korea and Japan were also frequently targeted as willing allies of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>But things started to take an Orwellian turn in the run-up to Kim\u2019s June 12 summit with President Donald Trump, with the old posters vanishing since then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the anti-American posters I usually see around Kim Il-sung Square and at shops, they\u2019ve all just gone,\u201d Rowan Beard, a tour manager at Young Pioneer Tours, told Reuters. \u201cIn five years working in North Korea, I\u2019ve never seen them completely disappear before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Infamous posters and postcards showing North Korean missiles on their way to Washington are a thing of the past. Also removed are the anti-American trinkets that used to be sold to tourists as souvenirs. In their place are items showing themes of Korean reunification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meeting with Presidents Trump and Moon, removing the loud speakers at the DMZ, repatriating our KIAs, dismantling a nuke test site (OK, it was pretty much done anyway, but still\u2026), no test missiles fired in months, talks involving removing artillery from the DMZ, and now a propaganda Sea Change.  I\u2019m still cautiously optimistic, but the facts on the ground thus far are the process seems to be working. Now if only the Lame Stream Media would take notice\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Post reports the North Korean government is erasing much of its anti-U.S. propaganda &hellip; <a title=\"North Korea erasing most anti-US propaganda\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80156\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Korea erasing most anti-US propaganda<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}