Inter-Korean propaganda leaflets examined in RAS lecture

Using propaganda leaflets in psychological warfare may sound like a thing of the past, but on the Korean Peninsula it's very much still a reality. Jacco Zwetsloot, a self-described "student of Korean propaganda techniques for over two decades," will give a lecture for Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea this Tuesday near central Seoul's Samgakji Station. "For more than 70 years, printed leaflets have been one of the most persistent — and often perilous — tools in the contest for hearts and minds between North and South Korea," he wrote in an online invitation to the lecture. "From Cold War-era air drops by airplane to modern balloon launches by South Korean civic groups, these slips of paper have carried urgent messages over barbed wire and beyond ideology. At times fiercely political and at others surprisingly playful — or even seductive — their goal has always been the same: to influence, to destabilize, to encourage defections and to provoke doubt." He will provide a discussion on the historical evolution of propaganda leaflets from both Koreas, the technologies and tactics useWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times