Spotify Segment - \"Deconstructing: How K-Pop Is Liberating North Korea\"
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If you want to Kim Jong un to stop being so shady What would you do? Send a note, maybe a glitter bomb? Or would you bless K pop across the border? A. South Korea does when its northern neighbours cross a line like illegally testing nuclear weapons. South Korea recently aimed at speakers north once again and turn the volume up to 11. South Korean officials are hoping to liberate North Korea. One. K pop track at a time. Call it K pop diplomacy. Instead of busting in there with guns and tanks, South Korean leaders are employing K pop as a cultural Trojan horse, sneaking visions of freedom into the closed off north. Songs by G friends tell stories of girls asking out boys and enjoying freedom in their romantic relationships. Surely crazy notions in a country where marriages were historically arranged and the government still imposes strict regulations on the institution of love. When K pop videos find their way into North Korea, they destroy government, perpetuate admits images of lavish homes and stylish leather pants are no doubt a shock to northerners who are regularly told that living standards in their country are far superior to those of other nations, even though 84% of the North Korean population lacks daily access to food, the truth hurts Kim on activists know it, which is why they continue to smuggle USB drives into the North. Many of these truth bearing rebels are North Korea's hit list, but they persist, determined to get the North to dance a condom style. Some say these efforts are actually working. More recent defectors report leaving behind a new crop of freethinkers exposed to the realities of life beyond their borders and wanting to embrace it. In the information age, knowledge is power, even when that knowledge is imparted by a boy band rocking leather pants. In fact, those boys might just one day be counted among the saviors of the North Korean people.