The conflict between North and South Korea has reached a new low. Now even religious life is considered warfare. Christmas lights are psychological warfare for the Koreans.
South Korea would not have allowed Christians to light a tree if the North had not torpedoed them. The article says “In 2004, the two Koreas reached a deal to halt official-level cross-border propaganda and the South stopped its annual Christmas illumination ceremony.” It then goes on to say that the north had allegedly torpedoed the south. After this incident the south allowed its people to light Christmas trees again. Thus the south would have not have lighten its lights had they not been attacked. The south used this act as a way to get back at the north.
Next, the south lights its Christmas trees to convert Northerners. This is bad for the North because religion is banned. The article uses details such as South Koreans will light three Christmas trees strategically placed in the east west and in the middle. And the author says “Last year's tree, which was illuminated by thousands of small light bulbs, could be seen from as far as the North's major city of Kaesong”. This shows that Christmas is warfare because of the trees magnitude. South Korea has gone to great extent to have Christmas trees.
Next, the author clearly thinks Christmas is propaganda. They write “Christmas as propaganda”. This is bolded and separated from the rest of the text. This is clearly supposed to draw attention to it. It is clearly supposed to show the Authors support of North Korea.
The meaning of this article is that Christmas is propaganda. The effect is that it makes you support North Korea because it demonstrates a specific incident of warfare.
In conclusion Christmas trees on the 38th parallel of Korea are psychological warfare.
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