Cho Ki-chon
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Cho Ki-chon was a Soviet-born North Korean poet. He is regarded as a national poet and "founding father of North Korean poetry" whose distinct Soviet-influenced style of lyrical epic poetry in the soc
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It is possible that Cho translated Kim Il Sung's victory speech of 1945 into Korean. Cho moved to North Korea that year.
Cho's epic Mt. Paektu promotes Kim Il Sung as a heroic guerrilla well-suited to lead the country.
North Korean literature
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Reading is a popular pastime in North Korea, where literacy and books enjoy a high cultural standing, elevated by the regime's efforts to disseminate propaganda as texts. Because of this, writers are
Cho Ki-chon
…of North Korean poetry" whose distinct Soviet-influenced style of lyrical epic poetry in the socialist realist genre became an important feature of North Korean literature. He was nicknamed "Korea's Mayakovsky" after the writer whose works had had an influence on him and which implied his breaking from the literature of…
Books on display at the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang