North Korea with a socialist orientation gave affirmative meaning to functionsof family, unlike prospect of Marxism that it will become extinct with abolitionof private possession. Also Traditional gender roles and patriarchal system rejectedby Marxism were recognized as effective mechanisms that can support State policiesin family unit. The Supreme Court of Democratic People’s Republic of Koreatried to suppress divorces increasing suddenly with proclamation of law on equalitybetween men and women. Divorces were suppressed because of negative effectson upbringing and education of children. Task of raising revolutionary childrenwas recognized as the most noble mission to women in charge of social and culturalreproduction. Like women and children and teenagers, families were mobilized for realizationof national ideology and policies. An attempt to convert home into political spacewas the starting point. Letters sent to their parents and brothers and sisters andwives and lovers from Korean students studying in the Soviet Union at the timeof the Korean War indicate significant shrinking of private space in the home. The politicalization of family that led to shrinking of private space reveals thatthe power of the State penetrating into home tried to use it as a tool of rule. Also love and sex, medium of reproduction of family were put under the controlof the State. Sex under control by various ways was utilized as a means to carrypolitical goal of the State. It was an effective means utilized to criticism againstimmoral culture of hostile countries and display of moral superiority of their country. North Korea oppressed and covered up sex in case of mobilization of the crowdfor nation building. Whereas they utilized it as an exposing means in case ofcriticism against hostile countries. In that sense, sex in North Korea involved duplicity.
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