2024-05-04 11:10:47
The experts in North Korea they assure that Kim Jong-un He’s not as ‘crazy’ as we think. However, not even his own Supreme leader of the most secretive country in the world he foresaw that the last propaganda launched to further tame a society crushed by the Communist regime would cross its inscrutable borders and become a global success in TikTok. It is the case of the song ‘friendly father‘, in reference to the dictator, which has been echoed by half the world. But in the United States it has gone further: the young people how much is TikTok?where the theme adds million views and, therefore, has become meat for capitalism, everything that the autocrat hates.
Any form of art that does not have a propaganda purpose It is prohibited in the Asian country. Although there are many famous artiststhey all spread the juche thoughtthe philosophical and ideological system created by the eternal president Kim Il-sung, grandfather of the current dictator. In this way, the North Korean leader launched a two weeks ago new ‘national anthem’ which is included in the extensive album produced by the communist State in the last 50 years.
‘friendly father‘ is another ode to the autocrat. “Let us sing to Kim Jong-un, our great leader. Let’s love Kim Jong-unour friendly father”, reads the song, which is constantly broadcast on the four—literally—television channels that is in the country. The lyrics praise his figure with statements such as “kind-hearted like your mother, benevolent like your father” or “we all trust in him and follow him with one heart.”
No different from the successes of the West
The subject is happy and catchy. Actually, no different from Western pop hits. But it is the video clip, in addition to the lyrics, that gives off an air of production by the Soviet era: appear children and young people more than happy, exultant. Different sectors of North Korean society such as health workers, engineers, soldiers and all types of workers also come out, singing the song and waving country flag in a framework of perpetual happiness.
As it could not be otherwise, all of this is seasoned with images of the supreme leader rubbing shoulders with his people. In fact, the ‘anthem’ was performed live by an orchestra during a ceremony in which a project to develop 10,000 homes in the capital was inaugurated. Pyongyang.
Generation Z dances to the tune of Kim Jong-un
From Korea to the world, that lively and contagious rhythm has pleased the Generation Z from the West, especially USAwhat dance to the song on TikTok. The ‘centennials’ have been carried away by the electronic synthesizers that predominate in it and the majority have not stopped for a moment to translate its lyrics. What’s more, they may not even know that Kim Jong-un threatened in January to “completely annihilate” the United States (and South Korea) if he started a conflict against his country.
Still, young Americans they move to the sound of the dictator and even some TikTok users have dedicated time to cover the song on the piano. Hay publications that exceed two million views y rondan los 300.000 ‘likes’. The comments number in the thousands and are not far behind either. “Taylor Swift didn’t expect to be surpassed right after releasing her new album,” jokes one user, “this song needs a grammy“, mocks another, while a third considers that “it is very dystopian, but very catchy.” However, the majority of reactions agree that The United States “will be late”, “will do well” or “will be right” in banning the Chinese social networkjust as he intends to do.
The supreme leader exalts himself even more
‘Friendly father’ It is not just another song from the regime’s repertoire. North Korean. Experts in the secretive country have noticed a change in vocabulary used. In this sense, they assure that Kim Jong-un has used nicknames that until now were reserved for his predecessors.
The current dictator was proclaimed the “great successor” when he inherited power in 2012 after the death of his father, Kim Jong-il, a year earlier. Instead, propaganda now calls him “father” and “the great” for the first time, two terms that only North Korea’s first autocrat, Kim Il-sung, received.
Analysts believe the change could be a sign that is consolidating his image as supreme leader from North Korea. Furthermore, in March he boasted about his daughterwhich was understood as a gesture of strength: they consider that Ju-ae has already been anointed as the fourth link in the dynasty that has ruled the country since 1948.
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