NORTH Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il may launch a sneak attack on the world's pop charts - with the love-song I Am a Front-line Soldier's Wife. Kim Jong-Il's latest attempt to consolidate power has been to authorise a swathe of new love songs to re-invigorate the population and entrench his control of one of the world's last communist states, according to local reports.In recent years a moribund economy and several recent severe famines have had a terrible effect on the North Korean people, destroying morale and causing unrest. But many North Koreans are now singing songs glorifying the women revolutionaries helping to build the nation, official media has reported.
In a country where popular reading material includes the mandatory Kim Jong-Il classics On Preserving the Juche Character and National Character of the Revolution and Construction and Songun Politics of Our Party Is an Effective Socialist Political Mode, catchy tune titles such as "Song of Coast Artillerywoman" and "I Am a Front-line Soldier's Wife," are bound to sweep the Korean communist motherland into a love frenzy.
North Korean media outlets have previously labelled the North Korean leader as the world's greatest golfer, reporting that he scored five holes-in-one and scored 38-under-par in his first game.
Since the Korean War ceasefire in 1953, North Korea has waged an unending propaganda war upon the "decadent cesspool" of Western liberal democracies, especially the US, Japan and their allies. The country has jealously guarded its independence, severely limiting the flow of outside ideas, technology and visitors over its borders. But a thriving North Korean love-song export industry may be just around the corner.
For music-lovers tired of silly love songs, say the new North Korean hit tune, "A Girl Innovator Dashing Like a Steed" is a refreshing change of pace. Other popular airs include "Song of Coast Artillerywomen," "Girl Silk-weavers of Nyongbyon" and "I Am a Front-line Soldier's Wife," the KCNA news agency reported. Songs promoting family values include "Love your Wives" and "My Mum Who Worries Herself About Her Child."
"A lot of songs have been composed in the country in reflection of the pride and happy life of the women who are playing a great role in all fields of social life," official media said.
It is unclear whether the tunes have a beat that people can dance to. However it may be the first step towards cultural colossus Kim Jong-Il filling the hearts and minds of twelve year-old girls with such movie classics as "They Were Always Together on the Road to Bring about the People's Well-being," and "Great Leadership over the Drive to Successfully Build a Great Prosperous Powerful Nation."
