선전원수책 No. 9 (Propagandist's Handbook No. 9): North Korean Workers' Party agitators' booklet, December 1948
Cover and contents page of No. 9 (December 1948) of the Workers' Party of North Korea's 'Propagandist's Handbook', a mimeographed booklet of talking points for party agitators. The contents list two talks: that diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and other 'democratic states' 'guarantee the eternal happiness of the Korean people', and one 'for strengthening mass agitation work'. The tell: an unfalsifiable promise ('eternal happiness') is attached to a diplomatic act (glittering generalities).
- Date
- December 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
- Techniques
- Glittering 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; print blurred, reading unconfirmed and apparently the same slogan as on No. 8] 조선해방을위한투쟁에 생명을바친 쏘베트 군대의 영웅적병사들의이름을 조선인민은 영원히 잊지않으리라! [cover, centre] 선전원수책 No. 9 [cover, foot] 북조선로동당중앙본부 선전선동부 1948 12 [English archival stamp, not original: SHIPPING ADVICE 2012 / BOX 7 / ITEM / COPY NO., with a red handwritten number] [contents page, vertical columns read right to left] 차 례 一、쏘베트사회주의공화국동맹을 위시한 제민주주의 국가들과의 외교관계의 설정은 조선인민의 영원한 행복을 보장한다 …… 一 二、군중선동사업강화를 위하여 …… 九
[cover, top; reading unconfirmed] 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. 9 [cover, foot] Central Headquarters of the North Korean Workers' Party, Agitation and Propaganda Department December 1948 [contents] Contents 1. The establishment of diplomatic relations with the democratic states headed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics guarantees the eternal happiness of the Korean people ... 1 2. For strengthening mass agitation work ... 9
Read from 960 px page renders of the Commons PDF. The contents page is clear; the top-of-cover slogan is blurred and was read against the identical slogan on No. 8, which is stated in the text rather than assumed. The slip numbering on the cover is not transcribed. Old spelling ('쏘베트') and spacing are kept as printed; page numbers are printed in Chinese numerals. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
