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The focus is on the Korean Peninsula.

In North Korea, the cold continues, and the Baekdu Mountain area once fell to minus 40 degrees Celsius.



Reporter Kim A-young tells us why they are still encouraging people to climb Mt. Baekdu.



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['I will go to Mt. Baekdu' (North Korean propaganda song): I will go in the spring, I will go in the winter, Mt. Baekdu, my heart's hometown...

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This is a song called 'Go to Mt. Baekdu', which was broadcast on Chosun Central TV on the 25th.



It was right after the cold wave hit, such as the daytime high temperature recorded the lowest temperature in 30 years, but it is a rather harsh selection.



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Rather, it seems to encourage people to visit Mt. Baekdu in this kind of weather.



[Chosun Central TV: You have to climb Mt. Baekdu where the blizzard blows, and you really have to face the blizzard of Baekdu.]



Chosun Central TV introduced the anecdotes surrounding this song in detail by appearing experts in each field.



[Kim In-cheol/Deputy Director of Labor Newspapers: (Before that) there was no song that fit the feelings of the explorers.

I found out while editing this song that (Secretary Kim) gave me a task to create a song.]



It was a song made by Secretary General Kim Jong-un himself in 2015, and now it has become a song that North Korean youth enjoy singing when climbing Baekdu Mountain.



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[It's a good song to inspire young people of the new generation to take the lead in a solemn struggle...

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All kinds of rhetoric were mobilized.



[Park Yeong-ho/Kim Won-gyun Myung-chung, Associate Professor at Pyongyang Music University: Rhythmic tone has strong bends and pulses, and it is also rhythmic, and the national color is strong, but it is joyful, passionate, and appealing…

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No matter how good the song is, there's no way the biting cold will go away with something like this.



The reason why they insist on climbing Mt. Baekdu even in this weather is that they must arm themselves in the end.



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Baekdusan University is also used as an expression.



[Kim Seong-hee/Kim Il-sung University Faculty: The road to Baekdu Mountain is a road that provides valuable mental food that cannot be compared to any nuclear weapon power...

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It was in December 2019 that Kim Jong-un rode a white horse to visit Mt.



It was one of the many methods used to actually organize the internal affairs while the North American summit failed.



(Video editing: Oh No-young)