SEOUL — North Korea’s official newspaper on Sunday called on younger generations to speak the country’s own standard language and follow traditional lifestyles, amid the regime’s crackdown on language expressions widely used in South Korea.
The Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the North’s ruling Worker’s Party, made the appeal in an article, saying, “The ideological and cultural penetration under the colorful colored signboard of the bourgeoisie is even more dangerous than enemies who are taking guns.”
The newspaper highlighted the superiority of its standard language based on the Pyongyang dialect and stressed the need for the younger people to use it correctly,…
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