Kim Jong-Un's new radio hit

6 Jul 2012, 3:44 pm   -   Source: Andy Park, SBS
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A stirring battle hymn, or even personal theme tune, dedicated to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un is in high rotation on state-run radio and TV stations in the hermit-like nation.

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By Andy Park

Patriotic sounds have been heard coming from deep inside North Korea.

A stirring battle hymn, or even personal theme tune, dedicated to the new supreme leader Kim Jong-Un.

The new radio hit "Onwards toward the final victory" is in high rotation on state-run radio and TV stations the hermit-like nation.

Reports have said the song is gaining popularity across the nation and generating enthusiastic responses from soldiers, workers, college students and youtube cynics fond of communist nostalgia.

But along with the usual zealousness for the military/industrial complex and the camp euphoria for generic overlay of mountain tops, there is a dearth of vintage communist song writing.

“By exploding the mental strength of the united heart of our million citizens” bellow the all-male choir.

“Joseon is bolstered as the gun barrel of the powerful, prosperous nation” harks back to the Korean kingdom founded in 1392 that was curiously devoid of gun barrels.

And while the rest of the world went through the industrial revolution at the turn of the 1800s, North Korea excitedly expecting the same economic boom sometime soon “by raising the beacon of the new industrial revolution of the new century”.

Theme songs designed to popularise North Korea’s Dear leaders are not new.

The 2011 hit “No Motherland without you” was literally Kim Jong-Il’s swan song.

With the tune of Michael Bolton’s saccharine “How am I suppose to live without you” in your head, the lyrics on the former illustrious leader’s signature song went “Our country cannot exist without you!”.

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