Analyzing the headline of more than 110,000 in the North Korean national news agency "North Korea Central News" and analyzing the information from North Korea

Knowing the internal circumstances of North Korea from overseas is difficult even in the Internet age because the information in North Korea is hard to leak out. Even in such a situation, North Korea's state-run telecommunications company "Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)"Opens the official website in 2010, and in 2011 also opens its Japanese edition to disseminate precious information about North Korea. If you thoroughly analyze the heading of the KCNA site to know the mysterious North Korea it will be like this.

Propaganda as Literature: A Distant Reading of the Korean Central News Agency's Headlines
https://xmarquez.github.io/KCNA/Reading_KCNA_headlines.html

KCNA's official website registered in Japan "Korean News" (http://www.kcna.co.jp/) Attracts attention not only from Japan but also from overseas as a base where information on North Korea is disseminated.

Korean News was written in Hangul charactersHangul versionnot only,English editionThere is also. Korean News has become a design reminiscent of the one-way Web 1.0 era that both the Hangul version and the English version have no pictures and headlines (headings) of articles are displayed in hypertext. By the way, from Korea, Korean News can not be accessed after 2015.


About Korean News (English Version) University of Victoria WellingtonXavier MarxMr. analyzed 114,441 headlines from January 1, 1997 to September 25, 2014, and graphed various data.

It is like this when you enumerate the names of people who appear in the headlines and graph it. A semilogarithmic graph in which the ordinate represents the number of times and the abscissa represents the rank, and "Kim Jong Il (Kim Jong Il)" is more than ten thousand times dirty. The second place is 4344 times of "Kim Il Sung (Kim Il-under)", the third place is 3398 times of "Kim Jong Un (Kim Jae-neng)", the main character of the headline also becomes the structure of the 3rd generation heredity It is getting. You can also see the name of President of Korea such as "Lee Myung Bak (Lee Myung Bak)" and "Park Geun Hye (Park Geun)".


Kim Jong Il said that 14 percent of headlines, Kim Jong-Il will be 13 percent, Kim Il Sung will appear in 9 percent. The orange part of the graph below is a headline on Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Il and it is clear that the topics of the Kim family lively the headlines.


"Global word vector embeddingsExamining the words that are easy to associate with the persons appearing in the headlines using a technique called "Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Il", very similar words / phrases are used Thing. Likewise, phrases with high similarity are also used for presidents of the past such as Kim Dae Jung, Lee Akihiro, Kim Young Ae and Park Geun Hye. It is hard to imagine that the former is "praise" and the latter is "abusive".


The following graph separates the evaluation for the person appearing in headline headlines by color. It shows that blue is a positive (positive) emotion, red is a negative (negative) emotion including sentiment, and white is a neutral (neutral) feeling.

Kim Il Sung (Kim Il Sung) has white color in the blue color.


Also Kim Jong Il (Kim Jong Il), which also stands out in blue and white, can see an intense red bar chart on December 16, 2011 when he died. North Korea seems to have grieved during this day all day.


Kim Jong Un (Kim Jong-en) has a thick blue graph stand out.


Kim Young Nam, a politician who is ranked second in the ranking of the fresh labor partyKimchanang) Has constantly acquired a blue graph.


On the other hand, Lee Myung Bak (Lee Akihiro) is red.


For words like Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sung, Lee Akihiro, Kim Jong Il, Kim Yong-Nam and others, words that are easy to use in negative deficits and positive blue letters are displayed proportionally. In addition, Kimonaga Minami's negative word "vice" is a part of Vice-premier (vice president), "exploit" extracted in the headings of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Il is not "exploitation" but "feat" Because it is used when praising great achievements in the sense that it is not necessarily a negative word is used.


Next, for the "country" that appeared in the headline, the following are classified as positive (blue), negative (red), neutral (white). "China" of North Korea's ally is basically blue.


Still in the armistice "Korea" red is noticeable.


Although it is unexpectedly blue "Japan", this isThe Korean Federation of Korean Federation(Chosun Joseon) because of many articles.


And "America" ​​is basically in the state of red.


Pleasure (light blue), trust (blue), expectation (light green), surprise (green), sorrow (light blue), headlines for Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Il, Kim Yongnam, Lee Akihiro and others from 1997 to 2014 It looks like this when you display finely with (pink), fear (red), anger (light pink), disgust (orange). For example, Kim Jong Il can confirm the red "hatred", but this is caused by the fact that many of the content of the tours visiting the pig farms are included, so it is possible to classify the words so accurately It is annotated that it does not mean there is.


It is like this if it is country-specific. "Fear" (red) concerning the United States is mainly concerning terrorism, and "joy" (light blue) seen in Korea is an article about pardon. Also, though articles to South Korea are basically negative, occasionally Korean organizations praise North Korea, such as the events officially accepted by the North Korean government will have a positive emotion headlines It seems to be large.


The amount of heading for a particular person varies widely depending on the date. In the case of Kim Jong Il, it seems that the number of articles will increase dramatically every year on December 16th when I died. In addition, it seems that the description will increase on the anniversary of the Labor Party of Korea (October 10).


In the case of Kim Il Sung, it will increase around the birth anniversary (April 15) and around July 8 when he died.


Unexpectedly, in the case of Kim Jong Il, the description does not increase on January 8, which is regarded as the birthday, and the description is increasing around Kim Il Sung's birthday and around 9th September on the Republic's founding date.


I know that there are patterns in propaganda that admire the KCNA's Kim family. The first is the "Kim family's accomplishment" pattern that Kim's family achievements and ideas are praised by foreigners. The second is a "tribute and honor" pattern that reports that gifts and honors were given to the gold family from abroad. The third is a pattern that reports on "progressive development projects of North Korea" in terms of economic content. The fourth is "cultural and artistic achievements of the state" on arts, events such as sports and performances. The fifth is "diplomatic activities" such as talks with foreign leaders and politicians, the sixth is "encouraging inter-Korean reunification" article. The seventh is the "emphasis on international solidarity" in the form of shining light on the enemies of the United States such as Iran etc .; the eighth is "Korean society" reporting Korean social and economic losses, the ninth is Japan, the United States etc. "Politics, economics, accidents and incidents on hostile countries" topics.

Typical topics of KCNA are "Special day for Kim family and country" (light blue), "Kim's family's great qualities and achievements" (blue), "Kim family appreciation" (light green), " Cultural and artistic achievements "(green)," social and economic development "(pink)," North and South unification "(red)," diplomacy "(light orbits)," international solidarity "(orange ), "Korean criticism" (light purple color), "information on hostile countries such as the United States" (purple), showing the proportion occupied in the head line. In recent years the content of diplomacy has decreased, and it seems that there is a tendency that topics on criticism of Korea and the achievements of the Kim family are increasing.