GENERAL PSYCHOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROPAGANDA ACTIVITIES IN NORTH KOREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2008
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• Publication Date: August 28, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATIO..N' ra ? to
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This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
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Political Indoctrination
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KIi-1 Il--91"':.g issued a statement urging
anti-Communist elements in o remoted io.'al districts and citi; e .c
surrender themselves to the authorities. 211-e statement proret cd try?.-,
if they surrender themselves within a c ;.rt .:_n given date,
ment would forgive their past offenceG anc. would help them to
employment. Fo'Llov,.ng the statement, it wa:3 reported, son
themselves to the Communist authorities:,
3. Generally speaking, it is impossible for the North Korean people to hear
South Korean broadcasts or other non-Communist broadcasts because the
Communists jam non-Communist broadcasts directed to North ikorea from
the Free World.
The North Korean people could not freely listen to radios
even if they had them.
un e s o peop e led by veterans. had
plotted a riot But the plot was detected,
and thirteen (1') pe-sons involved were arrested and all of them, except
two (2) or three persons were shot.
6. The North Korean. people have ants;, ni , . Uoi, aids the goverr~..rent for its
infringement upon freedom of reli'c'-Ion, e-d _nvriting moral corruption.
The North Korean people are anxie:s to :estcre traditional customs and
sound morals.
8. North Korean radio lroadcasts mainly introduce the situation on pro-
duction progress of rehabilitation projects, foreign news and Communist
propaganda.
9. North Korea has three political parties including the Korean Labor Party,
the Ch'ongu-dong and the Democratic Party. The Ch'-ongu-dang is a part--
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of Ch' ondogyo believers, but as the elements (pretended believers)
favored by KI:thh Il-song have infiltrated into the party, it cannot
play its full role as an independent political party, its existence
being nominal. The Democratic Party is in a condition similar to
that of the Ch' ongu.-ding.
10. North Korea is under a single-party leaders'cip instead of mule _-party
politics. and everything is carried out autocratically.. Therefore, there
can be no difficulty from a lack of cooperation,
11i There can be no private co nflict betv;e-gin the Party and the administrat i;O
officials in North Korea If there is any conflict, it is a disagrc.a:u e?oo
on business trans?a~ctions_ For instanci-~, Party of icials in an e.ttempc
to carry out Party undertakings successfully, kept factory laborers awak:
until mid-night, sometimes even until one (1) or two (2) o'clock the
next morning; criticizing production efficiency. !Uioanwhile, the manager
of the factory who is the chief responsible admi:As:,rativee official at
the factory complained that such practices caused the laborers to slum'oer
in the daytime and incure consequent decrease in labor production ef-
ficiency.
12. North Korea has a well-organized political mechanism. Each neighborhooc
(Pan) in a North riorean villages is composed of five (5) households (a
Chinese neighborhood is composed of 25 household) and the neighborhooc.
chiefs meet everynight to review and assess the labor production ef-
ficiency of their neighborhood members and report of it to the police
authorities concerned. If a visitor comes to any household, the neigabcr-_.
hood chief goes with him to the police station and allows him to remainn,
only after putting him to questions by police.
The Korean alphabets has been extensively publici7ed in North Korea,
Laborers, irrespective of sex or age, in-every workshop have to parti-
cipate in reading meetings every morning, and there ore, all of them
know how to read Korean. If there is anyone who cannot road, he is
to be kept away from the workshop. Of all, the moss important fact is
that all the Party members and Government officials are kind to all
(as far as their apparent attitude is concerned) and are never proud of
or abuse their official powers. Nevertheless, the people are afraid
of them and blindly obey them.
13. Every workshop has a political leader in North Korea. Anyone who wants
to join the Party has to join the workshop Party, through which he
becomes a full party member. Even after he has become a full Party
member, he has to undergo various tests by Party leaders before he can
hold an important position. Party members generally appear to be in-
different to non-Party members but, in reality, they keep a keen watch
on non.-Party members.
14. Special consideration is never given to private circumstances in North
Korea unless the Government recognizes then to be exceptional. It is
impossible for any individual to deceive the Party or the Government
in North Korea.
15. Communism is fundamentally different from. Capitalism or western democracy
in both theory and practice. In the early days, the Communists declared
to the laborers and farmers that "all the factories and farms are yours",
"Operate them as you like and thereby make your living secured", and
the people welcomed their announcement. Later, however, the Communists
began to demand the farmers to pay tax-in-kind and urging the laborers
to increase labor production efficiency. As such pressure increased,
public respect to the Communist regime has faded away. 25X1
16. North Korean government officials are oppressing in everything.
two families
committed suicide b taking poison in Pyongyang because of living
difficulties. there was another case of suicide in Najin.
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The story is as follows: On his 61st birthday, the oldman asked his
daughter-in-law to bring him a cup of drinking water and he was dumb-
founded when she replied "Comrade Father, there is no water to offer
to you." Suffering from unbearable mortification, he went to a nearby
hill and hanged himself. In the evening, his son returned from his
workshop and lost control of himself at hearing of the incident. He
killed his wife with an ax and killed himself with a knife.
174 Laborers are unconditionally favored in North Korea and consequently
various offenses were frequently committed by ignorant local labor 25X1
Party members. In particular, there were several embezz'.ement cases
during the period of 195)4 - 1955 and many laborer Party
members being sent to the police station.
186 In North Korea., if one goes to barber's shop, the barber generally
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shaves the entire body of the c,ustomer, If one goes to a bathhouse,
he is given only a very small piece of soap and he has to bathe with
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it alone. There were neither tooth-brushes nor tooth-power, o-? soap
the ifusan Lumber Mill was burnt to the ground.
The mill waste largest in the whole of Korea, and the cause of the
fire is still unknown.
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