North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un calls K-Pop a "Vicious Cancer" corrupting the youth

According to the New York Times, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has reportedly called K-pop, a music genre originating in South Korea, a “vicious cancer” corrupting the country’s youth.

• In recent months, Kim Jong Un and North Korean state media have been rallying against South Korean pop culture, including movies, K-dramas and K-pop videos. The North’s state media has warned that K-pop’s growing influence, which it calls “anti-socialist and nonsocialist”, on youth would make North Korea “crumble like a damp wall.”

The two neighbouring countries of the Korean peninsula have often used loudspeakers in the demilitarised zone along the border as propaganda machinery. Last year, inter-Korean relations took a major hit after North Korean defectors started floating leaflets to criticise Kim Jong Un’s regime over human rights violations and nuclear ambitions. North Korea destroyed the inter-Korean liaison office and cut all communication lines with South Korea.

• A culture war against South Korea has now been apparently declared by Kim as he believes the popular culture of the South is corrupting the “attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviours” of the country's youth.

“Young North Koreans think they owe nothing to Kim Jong Un,” Times quoted Jung Gwang-il, a defector who runs a network that smuggles K-pop into North Korea, as saying.

These nonsensical war tactics that North Korea has been using against South Korea and K-pop might soon turn out into something very disastrous.