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).
- Date
- October 1948
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Workers' Party of North Korea (북조선로동당) Central Headquarters, Agitation and Propaganda Department
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Books and pamphlets
- Issuer type
- Party
- Leader
- Kim Il Sung
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Name-callingGlittering generalities
- Leader
- Kim Jong Un
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (National Library of Korea scan of a Workers' Party of North Korea publication), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- PD-North Korea, PD-scan, PD-1996 tags on Commons: 1948 DPRK party publication, >50 yrs old by 28 Apr 2003
Workers' Party of North Korea, Central Headquarters, Agitation and Propaganda Department (1948); scan by the National Library of Korea via Wikimedia Commons; cover and contents pages composited and downscaled by FRAME.
Text on the object
[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
[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.
