Kim Jong Un (right) and his daughter Ju Ae inspect a rocket launch in Pyongyang. Photo: Korea Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
North Korea is ordering children to collect scrap metal that can be used to make weapons.
This comes at a time when the regime is ramping up efforts to train the next generation the creation of the country's ballistic missiles. arsenal by expanding science classes to help develop weapons technology.
Defectors told the Wall Street Journal that efforts to involve children in the nation's technological and weapons advancements begin with kindergarten, where babies are introduced to computers and robots as part of a broader program to prepare them for future weapons programs.
Leader Kim Jong-un's focus on technology likely had an ulterior motive to convince children to believe missiles would protect them and distract them from taboo concepts like freedom or capitalism, Nam Bada, director of People for Successful Korean Reunification , a group that helps defectors from North Korea. the newspaper said.
Children have long been taught that from an early age they view the Kim family as deities and the United States and its allies as enemies.
North Koreans are told that missiles will keep them safe. Photo: KCNA
In a letter to a meeting of the Korean Children's Union, a political organization affiliated with the ruling Workers' Party, last December, Kim urged them to feed their «hatred» of America and help the military create weapons to counter its enemies.
«You comrades, don't forget for a second that even today the American bastards and their puppets are looking for every opportunity to destroy your homes and steal your hopes,» Kim allegedly wrote in a translation of NK News from the state media.
< p>In earlier remarks about youth military activities last year, the authoritarian leader said party loyalty should be instilled in young students by forcing them to go through «trials» such as working on construction sites and participating in military exercises.
Defectors Earlier it was reported that children were forced to collect and transfer scrap metal and materials for the production of weapons to the military. part to connect the country's youth with the future of the state's nuclear weapons program.
Children in North Korea are being trained to continue the war against America. Credit: AP Photo/Cha Song Ho
Ju-ae, believed to be about nine years old, first appeared to the world wearing a puffy white jacket and red shoes as she and her father inspected an ICBM during its test launch in November, cementing the legacy of the next generation of the Kim family with their nuclear weapons program.
The pursuit of science as a national goal is also being promoted with cartoons about the North Korean state that depict the adventures of a raccoon, a bear and a cat in a cutting-edge fantasy tale with high-speed trains and remote-controlled submarines. reports the WSJ.
To Joo Ae's peers, who can secure a coveted place in schools catering to Pyongyang's elite, science and technology now seem like a path to prestige.
For years, educational institutions in the capital city have contributed to the improvement of art, music, mathematics and languages, and also instilled in their students loyalty to the state and hostility towards the perceived enemy trying to destroy it.
< p>Reports suggest that propaganda aimed at young minds aggravates an already ingrained enmity.
During The Telegraph's 2018 visit to Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace, 12-year-old Ri Jin Hyang was already captured in her views on America. “The US is the country that attacked us,” she said.
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