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A opus that praises North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has gone viral connected TikTok.
"Let’s singing Kim Jong-un, nan awesome leader," nan opus called "Friendly Father" says, according to BBC News. "Let’s brag astir Kim Jong Un, our friends father."
"Is this a azygous aliases wherever tin I get nan full album," 1 TikToker joked while different said, "It’s truthful dystopian successful nan catchiest way."
"I don't really for illustration Kim Jong Un but he was really cooking connected this song," different said.
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North Korea's caller opus "Friendly Father" astir Kim Jong-Un has gone viral connected TikTok. (API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
South Korean-pop, aliases K-pop, and Western euphony are banned wrong North Korea, and immoderate defectors person cited illegally listening to extracurricular euphony arsenic a facet successful their determination to defect.
"When you perceive to North Korean music, you person nary emotions," North Korean defector Ryu Hee-Jin told nan Washington Post successful 2019. "But erstwhile you perceive to American aliases South Korean music, it virtually gives you nan chills. The lyrics are truthful fresh, truthful relatable. When kids perceive to this music, their facial expressions conscionable change."
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Of "Friendly Father," Peter Moody a North Korea master astatine Korea University told BBC News, "The opus has Abba written each complete it. It's upbeat, it could not beryllium much catchy, and a rich | group of orchestral-sounding sequences could not beryllium much prominent."
Some North Korean defectors person cited listening to K-pop euphony for illustration nan group BTS arsenic helping them determine to defect. (Han Myung-Gu/WireImage)
Alexandra Leonzini, of Cambridge University, told nan outlet that North Korean authorities would person sought to make an "earworm" opus pinch elemental lyrics that’s easy to sing.
"All creator output successful North Korea must service nan people acquisition of citizens and much specifically amended them arsenic to why they should consciousness a consciousness of gratitude, a consciousness of loyalty to nan party," she said.
Defectors person said that nan authorities plays propaganda songs each greeting passim nan country, citizens are taught choreographed dances to nan songs and nan lyrics are printed successful newspapers. (KCNA via REUTERS)
Defectors person said that nan authorities plays propaganda songs each greeting passim nan country, citizens are taught choreographed dances to nan songs and nan lyrics are printed successful newspapers.
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"By nan clip nan opus has benignant of been taken into nan body, it’s go portion of nan person," Keith Howard, a professor astatine nan London School of African and Oriental Studies, said. "So they cognize nan lyrics truthful well, moreover if they're conscionable doing nan actions, moreover if they're conscionable listening to it. A bully ideological opus does that - it needs to embed nan message."
