{"id":1562,"date":"2018-12-20T21:33:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2018-12-21T01:29:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T01:29:05","slug":"american-propaganda-directed-for-north-korean-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/american-propaganda-directed-for-north-korean-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"American Propaganda Directed for North Korean Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1563\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1563\" class=\"wp-image-1563 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Prp-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Prp-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Prp.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American propaganda targeted at North Korean Soldiers (Photo courtesy of the Atlantic)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To Americans it was obvious that North Korea was a puppet of the USSR, but they sought to instill this belief in the minds of North Korean soldiers. The United States was seeking to increase desertion rate amongst the Korean People\u2019s Army, but their leader, Kim Il Sung was able to maintain loyalty both through an iron fist and creating a God like complex around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Americans it was obvious that North Korea was a puppet of the USSR, but they sought to instill this belief in the minds of North Korean soldiers. The United&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/american-propaganda-directed-for-north-korean-soldiers\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gray-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}