Overview

• Daily NK reports that the Workers’ Party Cadre Department began the program on August 21 for roughly 20–30 Wonsan guides, and international outlets have echoed the claims without official confirmation from North Korean authorities.
• Trainees are instructed to replace hamburger with dajin-gogi gyeopppang, ice cream with eseukimo or eoreumboseungi, and to refer to karaoke devices as on-screen accompaniment machines.
• The training spans three months and includes memorization of approved slogans, professional conduct guidance, and exams before qualification.
• Anonymous trainees quoted by Daily NK say the unfamiliar terms may confuse foreign visitors and describe fears of losing their positions over mistakes.
• The language push tracks with years of tighter controls on outside information that a United Nations report says have included public executions intended to instill fear.