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Seoul faces dilemma in upcoming joint military drill

Seoul faces dilemma in upcoming joint military drill
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Young North Koreans told to shun slang and cultural penetration from South

Young North Koreans told to shun slang and ‘cultural penetration’ from South Justin McCurry in Tokyo © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kim Won Jin/AFP/Getty Images Young North Koreans have been warned to adhere to the country’s standard language and follow “traditional lifestyles” as part of the regime’s campaign to stamp out cultural influences from neighbouring South Korea. In an editorial published on Sunday, the Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the ruling Workers’ party, railed against the creeping influence of the South on everything from hairstyles to the spoken word. “The ideological and cultural penetration under the colourful signboard of the bourgeoisie is even more dangerous than enemies who are taking guns,” it said, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

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In December it introduced a law designed to eliminate what it called reactionary thought and culture via illicit material from the South, the US and Japan. Anyone caught in possession of South Korean media could spend up to 15 years in a labour camp, while those found distributing contraband material face the death penalty. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, who was educated in Switzerland, has reportedly described K-pop as a “vicious cancer” that corrupts North Korean millennials – people in their 20s and 30s who grew up during the mid-1990s famine. “Kim … is well aware that K-pop or western culture could easily permeate through the younger generation and have a negative impact on the socialist system,” Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korea Studies, told the Korea Herald.

Young N Koreans told to shun cultural penetration

Young N Koreans told to shun cultural penetration
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Why is South Korea developing an Israeli-style Iron Dome?

Why is South Korea developing an Israeli-style Iron Dome? Frank Smith © Provided by Al Jazeera The Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system, left, intercepts rockets, right, fired by the Hamas movement towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip overnight on May 14, 2021 [File: Anas Baba/AFP] Seoul, South Korea – South Korea is developing a new artillery and short-range rocket defence system modelled after Israel’s Iron Dome, in a further upgrade to its military hardware on a peninsula that technically remains at war. The South Korean government said last month that it plans to spend about $2.5bn on research and development and deploy the new system by 2035.

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