We Reimagined North Korea's New 'Motivational' Slogans As Inspirational Instagram Quotes

Bringing the Hermit Kingdom's propaganda into the digital age.

The only way to even begin to understand Kim Jong-un's new slogans for North Korea is by imagining them as motivational quotes you’d find on Instagram.

For its upcoming Workers' Party congress, the first in 36 years, the Hermit Kingdom coined 375 new slogans to inspire its people. They range from slightly frightening to totally nonsensical, and include phrases promoting greenhouse vegetable production, backing state-sanctioned pop groups and turning the whole country into a fortress.

But can a saying really be inspirational if it's not rendered in an ugly font over a stock photo of a sunset on a beach? We think not. So we took a few of these slogans and turned them into something your annoying friends might be more willing to share on Instagram. It's really too bad that most North Koreans can't access the web.

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The full list was published by the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea on Wednesday. You can see the other slogans here.

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