North Korea Speech Analysis

The annual Military Parade in North Korea has taken place again in its capital Pyongyang. Usually, the present Korean leader gives a speech to his nation, emphasizing on his love and duty for his country. However, since Kim Jong-UN has taken the power, from his now deceased father Kim Jong-IL, he only gave a speech once in his first year of reign. Now, three years later, he reappears to give a speech with what appears to be the largest military parade North Korea ever held.
The world speculated what the North Korean dictator did in his three years of absence and questioned the state of North Korea's social, political, and financial condition.

These topics are dealt with in the article “At Military Parade, a Rare Public Speech by North Korea’s …show more content…
are quoted in an American newspaper. Since North Korea declared the U.S as their biggest enemy and reason why “their“ country is suffering economic backlashes. North Korea claims that “decades of American-led economic sanctions and blockades“ led to their failing economy, where the word “American-led”, a compound between the word American and the word leader, creates the image that both nations are at war. Though, by closer look, the author uses this quote to point out the absurdity of justification used by the North Korea’s dictator to explain the bad state of …show more content…
First of all, the author uses the word “vowed” which almost has a religious and sincere connotation and put in combination with the word “pursue”, which implies one is determined and will not give up until a specific goal is reached, makes Kim-Jong-Un seem like he is striving for great actions, which again, is the use of irony because the actual opposite is planned by North Korea, by developing nuclear weapons which are neither socially benefiting nor