SEOUL - While a North Korean deadline for the United States to soften its stand on denuclearisation talks passed uneventfully over the New Year, state media and propaganda efforts have been focussing on the prospect of a long confrontation with the United States.
The propaganda effort has included calls for North Koreans to"break through barriers" and strengthen the country. "The message will be that because of the US hostile policy and sanctions, that things will be more difficult for the foreseeable future," said Andray Abrahamian, a visiting scholar with George Mason University Korea.
Since Kim came to power in 2011, many North Koreans have steadily seen living conditions improve compared with deprivation and even famines of the 1990s. The propaganda push is designed to support a line Kim set out in a speech at the end of last year calling for North Koreans to brace for an"arduous and prolonged struggle" and to foster a self-reliant economy because of a delay in the anticipated lifting of sanctions, analysts said.
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