ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF NORTH KOREAN FEDERATION OF LITERATURE AND ART

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 295
• Publication Date: April 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT Political - Propaganda
HOW Sociological - Cultural organization
PUBLISHED Booklet
WHERE
PUBLISHED Pusan
DATE
PUBLISHED 25 Mar 1952
LANGUAGE
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Six Years of Red Rule
ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF NORT$ KOREAN
FEDERATION 1- LITERATURE J ,,M
(Comment: The following information was taken frcu. a booklet
by Ryon Su, a former member of the North Korean Federation of
Literature and Art) who lived under the Communist regime in North
Korea for 6 years.]
The North Korean Federation of Literature and Art (Puk Chosen Muahak
Yesul Chong Tongmaeng) was formed on 25 March 1946. The only federation of
its kind in North Korea, it once claimed a total membership of over 10,000.
The federation is supported and controlled by two authorities: the Prop-
aganda and Agitation Department of the Korean Labor Party and the Ministry of
Culture and Propaganda of the People's Republic. The Propaganda and Agitation
Department gives behind-the-scenes guidance on all literary and art activities
of the federation, decides on the type of material to be produced, and selects
the officers of the federation. The Ministry of Culture and Propaganda merely
transmits the directives of the Propaganda and Agitation Department to the
federation. Soviet-Koreans (Soviet citizens of Korean extraction] are in
charge of these two bodies of authority, and through them the federation main-
tains contact with the Kremlin.
The federation has a central co'.1mittee and, under this, there in a central
standing committee and a central inspection committee. The standing committee
conducts liaison with the Korean Labor Party.
The federation works with the Cultural Department of the North Korean
Federation of Trade Unions to organize workshop art groups. It also helps
organize similar art groups in schools, and in the Democratic Youth League and
the Democratic Women's League.
STATE
ARMY
NAVY
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NSRB
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The federation controls the following leagues and organizations:
1? Leagues
The federation controls the North Korean Literary League, the North
Korean Music League, the North Korean Fine Arts League, the North Korean Drama
League, the North Korean Motiou Picture League, the North Korean Choreography
League, and the North Korean Photography -,vague,
Each of these leagues has a standing committee and an inspection com-
mittee. The standing committee is an executive organ, while the inspection
committee oversees the operation of the standing committee. Each league also
has a secretariat which plans, executes, and inspects all operations of the
leagues, and directs, mobilizes, and controls the thought of its members.
Each league has subcommittees in various fields of specialization,
with a chairman, vice-chairman and several committeemen for each subcommittee.
The North Korean Literary League, for example, has subcommittees for poetry,
fiction, script-irriting, criticism,., eaildren's literature, and foreign lit-
erature. The North Korean %,usic League has subcommittees for composition.
ner:c'emnnce, and criticism. The North Korean Fine Arts League has nubcommit-
tees for blestern painting, Oriental painting, sculpture, and criticism.
Organization of State, Provincial, and City Governments
The following organizations established and managed by the state,
provincial, or city governments also belong to the federation:
The state, provincial, and city theaters
b. The State Art Theater (under which are the State Choir, the
State (pera, the State Orchestra, the state "Classical Music" Orchestra, and
the State Ballet)
c. The State Motion Picture Studio (for production) and the State
Motion Picture Control Committee (for distribution of motion pictures). (The
Soviet Motion Picture Company is not connected with the federation)
Private Organizations
The followingr, private establis;-Mont:; alto belong to the federation:
a. Ch'oe cunt;-hi Dance School (which teaches classical dance), z:rd
the Chong Chi-cu Dance bclicol (ohich spacic.?In m..cdtrn ballet)
b. The State Fine ..rts Production Center (which specializes In Its
production of propaganda material, such as portraits of Communist lead. a,
decorations, and posters for streets and meetin3 maces)
c. The State Phot-raphic Stu,.io (;rhich produces and distributer
rrooaganda and news photographs)
The _Jtate Conservator;; of i;usic, the State Trine Arts chcoi, and the stet._
music schools in Haeju and other cities were formerly under joint; control the Ministry :f Culture and Propaganda and th-e federation. These institutions
were later transferred to the Education Ministry.
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ncnL evict movies. .
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f Korean The:.;.or
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