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title: '선전원수책 No. 8 (Propagandist''s Handbook No. 8): North Korean Workers'' Party agitators'' booklet, October 1948'
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description: Cover and contents page of No. 8 (October 1948) of the Workers' Party of North Korea's 'Propagandist's Handbook', a mimeographed booklet of talking…
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# 선전원수책 No. 8 (Propagandist's Handbook No. 8): North Korean Workers' Party agitators' booklet, October 1948

Cover and contents page of No. 8 (October 1948) of the Workers' Party of North Korea's 'Propagandist's Handbook', a mimeographed booklet of talking points for party agitators, issued about seven weeks after the DPRK was proclaimed. The contents list two talks: the Soviet Army's withdrawal as 'an expression of its consistent liberating mission', and 'South Korean traitors' accused of making a military treaty with 'American imperialists'. The tell: the first title is a virtue frame (glittering generalities), the second packs several labels into one headline (name-calling).

## Text on the object

Original (Korean) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[cover, top, in a typed line]
조선해방을위한투쟁에 생명을바친 쏘베트
군대의 영웅적병사들의이름을 조선인민은
영원히 잊지않으리라!

[cover, centre]
선전원수책
No. 8

[cover, foot]
북조선로동당중앙본부
선전선동부발행
1948.10

[cover, left margin: handwritten annotation in purple ink, illegible]

[contents page, vertical columns read right to left]
목 차
쏘베트군대의 철거는 일관된 해방적 사명의 표현이다 …… 一
[?]놈을 다시 불러오며 미제[국 printed in Chinese character]주의자들과 군사조약을 체결하는 남조선매국노들의 최후발악상 …… 一七
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[cover, top]
The Korean people will never forget the names of the heroic soldiers of the Soviet Army who gave their lives in the struggle for Korea's liberation!

[cover, centre]
Propagandist's Handbook
No. 8

[cover, foot]
Published by the Agitation and Propaganda Department,
Central Headquarters of the North Korean Workers' Party
October 1948

[contents]
Contents
The withdrawal of the Soviet Army is an expression of its consistent liberating mission ... 1
The last-gasp frenzy of the South Korean traitors who call back the [?] bastards and conclude a military treaty with the American imperialists ... 17
```

Read from 960 px page renders of the Commons PDF. Old spelling ('쏘베트') and spacing kept as printed. The first character of the second contents title is on a pasted slip, marked [?]. Leader dots shown as '……'; page numbers are Chinese numerals. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; '최후발악상' ('last-gasp frenzy') is the least certain phrase.

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