Kim Jong-un, struggling to prevent the K-pop wave from taking over the North Korean young generation

World News Nilgun Salim
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Kim Jong-un daily struggle of imposing the North Korean values on the young generation of the peninsula is not generating the best results, certain sources from the fearful state have revealed.

The residents of Pyongyang, especially the younger segment, writes Daily NK, exposes once again that certain South Korean products are part of the “illegal objects” list, forbidden by the North Korean officials and confiscated on the spot if these are found in the North Korean households.

“Hallyu” is the term that describes the cultural phenomenon the South Koreans use to describe the Korean wave, that in the 90’s has gained an incredible popularity among the young generations of East and Southeast Asia.

Also, the K-pop phenomenon, which includes series and music, is spreading its influence over Youtube and social media, not only in North Korea.

Meanwhile, an undercover source from North Korea told the Daily NK the young generation of Pyongyang is currently turning their back to the traditional North Korean currents.

Instead, they are preferring the K-pop style and the most popular songs can be heard on the streets of Pyongyang.

“The generation of the market economy,” as they are told to North Korean youth in Pyongyang, is currently considered as the symbols of a possible “twilight” of the dynasty dictatorship in North Korea, according to the quoted source.

The authorities are working on as many fronts to block the breach through which such showbiz “products” penetrate into North Korea.

If a person is caught with a USB stick upon himself, with South Korean music or movies, he is arrested and sent to a concentration camp or forced labor colony, being charged with a crime similar to possession of weapons or consumption of drugs.

But adherence to “treacherous materials” is not only found among the younger generation but even in the state apparatus, stresses Daily NK.

Another source in Pyongyang says there is a fashionable metaphor in North Korea: that elite security agents, the first-line dictatorship, have “two hearts.”

A “heart” hunting traffic in such products in North Korea and a “heart” that yearns for these “treacherous materials.”