Racism in North Korea

Racism in North Korea is a phenomenon that is relatively poorly understood.^{[ citation needed ]} The North Korean media and government's usage of Korean ethnic nationalism's race-based concepts such as "pure blood" has been described as racist. ^[1]

A classic North Korean short story, "Wolves" (or "Jackals",승냥이, 1951), by Han Sorya, has also been described as racist. ^[2] According to the documents from Hungarian and East German records, on March 28, 1965, Lázaro Vigoa Aranguren, the ambassador of Cuba to North Korea diplomat leading a delegation visiting Pyongyang tried to take a picture of the ruins of the bombardment during the Korean War was beaten for being a black person, which was soon followed by an apology from Kim Il Sung. ^{[3] [4]} A similar incident occurred in the 1960s when a WPK party secretary delivered a speech and proceeded to say that marrying foreigners was a “crime against the Korean race”, shocking the members of the visiting East German delegation in North Korea. ^[5] In 2014, North Korean state media published a racist rant directed at US President Barack Obama, comparing him to a "monkey". ^{[6] [7]}

See also

• The Cleanest Race
• Propaganda in North Korea
• Racism in South Korea

References

1. Gabroussenko, Tatiana (2015-01-01). "Ethnic Nationalism and Internationalism in the North Korean Worldview" . Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: 413–436. doi:10.1163/9789004292932_019. ISBN   9789004292932.
2. David-West, Alzo (2012-05-01). "Savage Nature and Noble Spirit in Han Sorya's Wolves: A North Korean Morality Tale". Transnational Literature. 4 (2). hdl:2328/25882. ISSN   1836-4845.
3. '헝가리의 북조선 관련 기밀해제문건', 선인, 2013.(in Korean).
4. Report on the Incident involving the Cuban Ambassador and the Delegation of Physicians from Cuba while in North Korea
5. Csoma, Mózes. 2018. Korea története (History of Korea). Antall József Tudásközpont, Budapest.
6. Fish, Isaac Stone. "Obama, Don't Take It Personally, North Korea Just Hates Black People". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
7. Keating, Joshua (2014-05-09). "North Korea Releases Racist Screed Against Obama". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-23.