China’s Soft Power Play in North Korea

China’s Soft Power Play in North Korea

“China has noticed that North Korea's controls on Chinese cultural content have relaxed as the country harshly cracks down on South Korean content,” a source told Daily NK.

China's soft power play: The secret cultural campaign to win N. Korean hearts and minds - Daily NK English

China’s propaganda departments in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang are secretly implementing a strategy to spread Chinese cultural content in North Korea through an unofficial exchange project called the “program for mutual cultural development and cooperation.” According to a Daily NK source in China recently, the project was developed between late 2023 and early 2024 as a purported cultural exchange initiative bet…