A crack in the world of North Korean Newspeak - from the Daily NK:
The North Korean authorities have been put on high alert after discovering anti-Kim Jong Un graffiti defacing a major government building in the capital earlier this month.
"A person scribbled an anti-Kim Jong Un message on one of the outer walls of the 'April 25 House of Culture' in Pyongyang before dawn on March 1,” a resident of Pyongyang reported to Daily NK on March 19.
“The atmosphere is extremely tense now, with expectations that Kim Jong Un will soon personally hand down instructions over the matter.”
When asked what the exact words used in the anti-regime graffiti were, the source said he did not know, only that such graffiti appeared, and that in an attempt to track down the perpetrator, the authorities are conducting handwriting tests on residents and renewing scrutiny of the city's non-official resident population.
Kim Jong Un has also reportedly ordered the country's top intelligence agencies including the Ministry of State Security and Ministry of People's Security to take part in a month-long emergency training course in response to the graffiti incident, likely in an attempt to strengthen the political and ideological resolve of its members.
"Kim Jong Un has given instructions regarding the Propaganda and Agitation Department's handling of the lectures and subsequent reporting," the source said. "It seems that preventing any ideological disruptions (among cadres) is more important right now than finding the person responsible for the graffiti."
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