Seoul: Wandering through the forest on a white horse, Kim Jong Un in the new North Korean propaganda video that tells its economic leadership but ignores a recent recent series to launch the launch of sanctions.
Pyongyang started the year by recording seven weapons tests, including firing the most powerful missiles since 2017, raising Kim’s worries can restart long term or nuclear testing.
But the documentary produced by the government released this week highlighted Kim’s struggle to the right of the battered economy, which was shaken from a blockade for years because of Coronavirus and international sanctions.
“The main theme of documentary films is Kim’s service and hard work for the people,” Rachel Minyoung Lee, a non-resident with 38 North Programs in the center of Stimson based in Washington, told AFP.
The video was booked with a snippet Kim riding a white horse, the main symbol of the Kim’s family dynasty rules.
But “I don’t think we have to read too much to the horse scene, let alone connect them with the launch of North Korean missiles and North Korean missile test plans,” Lee said.
With the talks with Washington jammed, North Korea has doubled in the oath of Kim to modernize the regime’s armed forces, even though there are reports of the price of food that has soared and hunger deteriorating.
The propaganda film made a coded reference to “the worst difficulty” of the country in 2021, showing Kim’s record carefully down the stairs when a narrator illustrates how “his body really wilted” with hard work.
This is an effort for “humans” Kim, who is Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean study, told AFP.
“They tried to paint it as a leader who loved his people very much and, as a result, often worked too hard and tired,” said that.
North Korea was preparing to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the birth of Late Leader Kim Jong Il in February and the 110th anniversary of the founder of Kim Il Sung in April.
Kim Thundering’s shot along with the white horse “used to remind the viewers that Kim Jong UN was a descendant of Kim Il Sung, who was very sacred figure”, said.
Another video from Kim was released this week by the state-run KCTV showing Kim, Indonesian wife Sol Ju and Bibi Kim Kyong Hui attended the theater.
Kim Kyong Hui has reportedly died after the execution of her reform-minded husband, Jang Song Thaek, only for him to reappear at a public event six years later.
The video kill released around the Chinese New Year could be an effort to highlight Kim’s vitality, Cheong Seong-Chang from the North Korean study center at the Sejong Institute, told AFP.
“Horse riding scenes, in particular, seems to have been produced to show off their health in and abroad.” “This shows its strong determination and motivation for the new year.”