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How Kim Jong-un’s propaganda song conquered TikTok

How Kim Jong-un’s propaganda song conquered TikTok

“Friendly Father” is the first North Korean composition about the leader to go viral for its musicality.

Harriet Barber

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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has found fame on TikTok, as international viewers celebrate his regime’s recent propaganda song as “dystopian in the catchiest way”.

Friendly Father – a synthy electropop tune – is the latest in a string of pop songs the authoritarian state’s leaders have released over the past 50 years.

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