Ideological education used to stoke anti-South Korea, anti-US sentiment
North Korea intensified ideological education and reinforced internal unity ahead of the anniversary of the Korean War's outbreak.
KCNA reported Wednesday that "revenge rallies" were held across the country Tuesday to mark the "June 25 Day of Struggle Against US Imperialism," targeting workers, students and agricultural laborers.
The gatherings featured lectures emphasizing only North Korean casualties from the Korean War, denunciation sessions declaring the United States and South Korea as enemies, and ideological agitation.
At a revenge rally for workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions held at the Central Class Education Hall in Pyongyang, a lecturer "exposed and condemned the eternal crimes of the US imperialists' human slaughter" in connection with the Korean War, KCNA said.
The lecturer said "US imperialist aggressors, bred with bestiality and cruelty, mercilessly massacred our people wherever they went," and stressed that participants must "never forget for a moment the bloody lessons engraved by the war and mercilessly punish the aggressors."
In a discussion that followed, a participant said "the enemies' acts of sovereignty violation, carried out even more viciously in recent times, once again clearly prove that the US imperialists and South Korean scum are our permanent, unchanging principal enemy."
At a revenge rally for agricultural workers and members of the Agricultural Workers Union held at the Susanni Class Education Hall, a lecturer "exposed and condemned the anti-human crimes of the US imperialist murderers who most cruelly and barbarically massacred numerous patriots and residents in Susanni during the period of strategic temporary retreat," KCNA said.
The rally also showcased, through agitational poems and songs, what KCNA described as "the revolutionary fighting spirit of agricultural workers across the country who have risen in a whole-nation resistance to sweep away the US imperialists and South Korean clique running amok with their anti-republic nuclear war schemes."
At a revenge rally for students and youth held at the Fatherland Liberation War Victory Museum, the Korean War was characterized as "a war of aggression started by the US imperialists."
A lecturer said the war had turned "schools and streets and villages once overflowing with the joy of life into ashes." The lecturer incited participants that "if the enemies force war upon us again, we must fight bravely to protect our beloved hometowns and cherished schools, just like the young guard members of the war years."
North Korea refers to the Korean War as the "Fatherland Liberation War" and marks the anniversary of its outbreak each year as the Day of Struggle Against US Imperialism, using it as an opportunity for ideological education of its population.
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