Every part of your life controlled, in an increasingly Orwellian North Korea. From the Daily NK:
North Korean authorities have filmed women caught up in crackdowns on “capitalist” fashion and are using the footage in lectures for people in North Hamgyong Province, Daily NK has learned.
Through a source in the country, Daily NK confirmed that the Socialist Patriotic Youth League has recently been using the footage for lectures in Chongjin.
According to the source, the video-based lectures started in early April. At the lectures, the authorities are stressing that wearing one’s clothing and hair in the “North Korean style” plays an important role in establishing a socialist lifestyle.
Basically, the authorities are emphasizing that they will thoroughly crack down on improper dress and hairstyles, labeling them “anti-socialist and non-socialist behavior.”
Meanwhile, Rodong Sinmun reported on Sunday that the party’s consistent position has been the “thorough establishment of socialist lifestyles in all sectors of social life.” The paper also repeated that wearing one’s clothing and hair in the North Korean way plays an important role in establishing a socialist lifestyle.
However, the issue is that young people recently busted by Socialist Patriotic Youth League enforcement teams on the streets of Chongjin appear in the video.
Most of them were women in their 20s and 30s and were forcibly filmed for wearing tight pants or dying their hair. All were regarded as “capitalist delinquents.” In the video, the women are even described as having “indecent clothes” and “impure ideology.”
The video again reveals the country’s propaganda focus that one’s clothing reflects not only one’s appearance but also one’s ideological, spiritual, and cultural “level.”
The lectures reportedly include the statement that adhering to “uniform” fashion is “directly connected to the future of the motherland.” Through such statements, the authorities appear to be aiming to quiet the progressive spirit and creativity of young people while preventing them from growing “ideologically disaffected” through exposure to foreign cultures.
A woman in her 20s forcibly filmed for wearing foreign styles of clothing. (Daily NK)
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