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Kim Jong-un thinks that K-pop is a “vicious cancer”
K-pop as a “vicious cancer” corrupting the young people he governs.On Friday (June 11), The New York Times reported that the politician has declared a new culture war to halt the spread and influence of South Korean movies, K-dramas and K-pop videos to his citizens through a secretive anti-K-pop campaign.News of the culture war was first learned by Seoul-based news source Daily NK from leaked internal documents coming from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.“To Kim Jong-un, the cultural invasion from South Korea has gone beyond a tolerable level,” said Jiro Ishimaru, chief editor of Asia Press International, a Japanese website which monitors North Korea.
