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South Korea Invades North Korea – With Comics

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The Financial Times reports that the South Korean security service is using comics to target North Korean teenagers.

north-south-korea-divideOne publicised title, Ji-yong, sees a time-travelling teenager discovering the North Korean invasion, dictatorship and current international issues. Apparently over half of South Korean schoolchildren did not even know of the Korean War, and recent example of pop culture have blurred the differences between the two countries.

A police spokesman is quoted a saying "In the past, national security education was conducted forcefully and stirred up hostility", that previous clumsier titles had depicted "North Korean soldiers as wolves and Kim Il-sung as a pig" and that "these new comic books are based on facts to help children form a fair appraisal."

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