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North Korea Unveils Over 300 Bizarre Slogans To Mark 70th Founding Anniversary

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(Photo : Reuters) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a photo session with participants in the second meeting of KPA logistic personnel in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang December 25, 2014.

From the legacy of the Kim dynasty, to children's school uniforms, to growing vegetables and mushrooms.  These are just some of the wide range of topics, North Korea's new political slogans were drafted from.

North Korea launched more than 300 new slogans to mark its 70th founding anniversary. The long list of mottos drafted by the Worker's Party of Korea, were published by the KCNA news agency.

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The list highlighted phrases that talk about the glories of the Kim dynasty. It also included some, meant to threaten its enemies, the United States and South Korea. 

One slogan goes: "Should the enemy dare to invade our country, annihilate them to the last man so that none of them will survive to sign the instrument of surrender!"

Some of its slogans were agriculturally themed like, "Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms!" and  "Grow vegetables extensively in greenhouses!"

The other slogans told wives to become "dependable assistants to their husbands" so they can efficiently serve the country and its people.

North Korea also urged "joint operation of the army and people" and convert the country into a "socialist fairyland".

The long bizarre list did not end there. The slogans even pushed for more stylish school uniforms for the children and also encouraged North Koreans to play games in an offensive way. 

While all these slogans sounded strange to citizens of other countries, North Koreans said these are not new.

North Korean Lee Min-Bok who left the North more than a decade ago and now lives in the South said, they were permanently exposed to a barrage of slogans.

"We had to memorize a lot of them to show our loyalty," He said.

He also said that the list contained recycled slogans, such as the one that talks about growing vegetables in greenhouses - which had been around for decades. 

North Korea had been using slogans as propaganda to maintain the power of the Kim dynasty, and loyalty to its leader Kim Jong-un. The propaganda had been injected even to minds of children the moment they begin attending school. 

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