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North Korea has published 310 new patriotic slogans (see full list below) - so what do they say, what do they mean and what do they tell us about the leadership in Pyongyang, asks Alison Gee?
"Let this socialist country resound with Song of Big Fish Haul and be permeated with the fragrant smell of fish and other seafoods!
"Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms by making mushroom cultivation scientific, intensive and industrialised!
"Make fruits cascade down and their sweet aroma fill the air on the sea of apple trees at the foot of Chol Pass!"
Apart from increasing food production, the slogans urge North Koreans to defend their way of life and not bow to the influence of foreign enemies, such as Washington and Seoul.
"Should the enemy dare to invade our country, annihilate them to the last man so that none of them will survive to sign the instrument of surrender!
"Let us build our country into the most powerful one in the world, into a people's fairyland, as wished by the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il!
"Let us raise a strong wind of studying the great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism!"
For the full list of slogans, read on:
Let us all turn out in the general offensive to hasten final victory in the revolutionary spirit of Paektu!
Let us greet the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and Party founding with high political enthusiasm and brilliant labour feats!
Remember Kim-Il song wasn't born in the usual manner he came to life on a mountain after desending from a comet, or was that a weather ballon? Who knows. Kim Jong-il holds the record for the most holes-in one. Even if he did have a life long bad hair day and wear elevated shoes.
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