North Korean aphorisms braid martial resolve with pastoral imagery, marrying rice fields and steel mills to a creed of self-reliance and collective duty. Mountains, rivers, and the rising sun frame people as both guardians and students of the revolution, where sacrifice is recast as honor and endurance as everyday virtue. Language tends to march, rhythmic and declarative, yet it leaves room for folk warmth, family, and season. Expect slogans sharpened into poetry, loyalty voiced as destiny, and hope cast in the glow of a coming day.
"We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it"
"The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority"
"It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious"
"South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk"
"The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free"
"It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will"
"A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning"
"No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea"
"We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States"
