Absurd Propaganda Campaign
With North and South Korea resuming the second high-level talks at the Panmunjom truce village, North Korea is carrying out an absurd propaganda campaign on Aug. 23, spreading false information about South Korea through its media outlets.
On the same day, a North Korean website for propaganda to the South, called “Woori Minjok Kkiri,” which means getting together between our races, reported, “There is an increasing number of soldiers of the 'puppet army' who are deserting from their barracks, and young men are escaping to other countries in order to avoid enlistment into the puppet army.”
The website added, “Accordingly, the price of outbound airline tickets has increased by more than 10 times,” conducting a propaganda war in a bid to throw the South into confusion by spreading ridiculous rumors.
Also, the website said, “Since war phobia is prevalent among South Korean residents, they are stockpiling ramen, drinking water, and beverages. As the residents bought a bunch of food, it caused total chaos at a department store in Incheon.”
The North's website also added, “If war breaks out in the Korean Peninsula, more than 1 million people will be killed and injured for a day following the outbreak in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province alone, which are populated by 48.2 percent of the people. More damages in the southern part, in where nuclear power plants are located, will occur.”
The Woori Minjok Kkiri insisted, “In economic terms, even a child knows that the economy of South Korea, which depends on foreign capital by 70 percent, will be miserably destroyed to the extent that it will not be able to survive. Indeed, South Korea's stock market index has dropped more than 50 percent.”
The reasons why North Korea has continuously reported this absurd information about South Korea is to control the anxiety in its society and to strengthen its internal unity amid tensions between the South and the North.