{"id":1405952,"date":"2022-03-28T21:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405952"},"modified":"2022-03-28T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T01:31:45","slug":"n-koreas-kim-calls-for-ramping-up-ideological-campaigns-amid-worst-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-koreas-kim-calls-for-ramping-up-ideological-campaigns-amid-worst-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Korea\u2019s Kim calls for ramping up ideological campaigns amid \u2018worst difficulties\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fn-koreas-kim-calls-for-ramping-up-ideological-campaigns-amid-worst-difficulties%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405952&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers conclusions during the 2nd Conference of Secretaries of Primary Committees of the Workers&#8217; Party of Korea (WPK), in this photo released on March 1, 2022 by North Korea&#8217;s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS<\/div>\n<p>March 29, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Hyonhee Shin<\/p>\n<p>SEOUL (Reuters) \u2013     North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for a propaganda campaign to increase popular support for the country\u2019s ideology of self-reliance amid \u201cthe worst difficulties,\u201d state media KCNA said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Kim sent a letter to ruling Workers\u2019 Party officials attending a workshop on Monday that aimed to boost motivation for socialism and advance innovation in the party\u2019s ideological work, KCNA said. <\/p>\n<p>In the dispatch, Kim said the party has been \u201cadvancing in the face of the worst difficulties\u201d and stressed the need to spread its vision for \u201cjuche\u201d, or self-reliance. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should regard the ideological and moral strength of the popular masses as the foremost weapon as ever and stir it up in every way,\u201d he said, according to KCNA. <\/p>\n<p>The juche theory means that \u201cnothing (is) impossible to do when the people are motivated ideologically,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>North Korea faces mounting economic woes amid sanctions over its weapons programmes, natural disasters and COVID-19 lockdowns that sharply cut trade with China, its major ally and economic lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is pushing for tightening international sanctions over Pyongyang\u2019s first full test of an intercontinental ballistic missile last week, despite opposition from China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has not confirmed any COVID-19 cases, but closed borders and imposed strict travel bans and other restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Kim said the ideological campaign should focus on dispelling \u201cevil spirits of anti-socialism\u201d and non-socialist elements that have \u201cgnawed away at our revolutionary position,\u201d KCNA said. <\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang has cracked down on the influx of South Korean music and entertainment via the Chinese border to curb what it says are non-socialist and anti-socialist influences. <\/p>\n<p>Kim also called for beefing up visual content and stressed film as \u201can ideological education means of the greatest influence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers conclusions during the 2nd Conference of Secretaries of Primary Committees of the Workers&#8217; Party of Korea (WPK), in this photo released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}