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Censorship is a form of media monopoly, where the government oversees all media content in order to maintain obedience. North Korea utilizes a three-tiered approach to control its citizens at the ideological, physical, and institutional level. [4] This applies not only to North Korean residents but also to visitors. [5]
Music of North Korea is typically limited to state-sanctioned performers and ensembles, whose propaganda music glorifies the Kim dynasty and Juche ideology. Foreign music, and older North Korean music that do not meet the government's standards, is generally banned. [128]
Censorship in South Korea is implemented by various laws that were included in the constitution as well as acts passed by the National Assembly over the decades since 1948. . These include the National Security Act, whereby the government may limit the expression of ideas that it perceives "praise or incite the activities of anti-state individuals or groups".
North Korea has 12 principal newspapers and 20 major periodicals, all published in Pyongyang. [37] Foreign newspapers are not sold on the streets of the capital. [38] Every year, North Korean press jointly publishes a New Year editorial, also broadcast by KCNA, which regularly attracts the attention of the international news media. [39] [40 ...
A North Korean propaganda song extolling Kim Jong Un as “a great leader and a friendly parent” has gone viral on TikTok, with mashups and dances racking up millions of views, leading to South ...
After the division of Korea in 1945 and the establishment of North Korea in 1948, revolutionary song-writing traditions were channeled into support for the state, eventually becoming a style of patriotic song called taejung kayo (대중가요) in the 1980s [6] combining classical Western symphonic music, the Soviet socialist realism style, and Korean traditional musical forms. [7]
Film censorship in North Korea (1 P) Pages in category "Censorship in North Korea" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
I am particularly interested in expanding this article by including the following additional sections: music (including North Korea’s one pop-music band and the hallyu wave spreading from South Korea), the flow of information out of the country (including the Rimjin-gang publication), DVD censorship (including efforts to sneak foreign DVDs ...