New slogans to mark liberation, anniversaries

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea unveiled a list of 310 new slogans on Thursday to mark the 70th anniversaries of the founding of the ruling Worker's Party of Korea and the liberation of the Korean Peninsula from Japanese occupation in 1945.

The list, published by the Korean Central News Agency, covers a wide range of topics, including mushroom cultivation and the importance of dependable wives.

Their tone was by turns harsh, encouraging and comforting, and the style ranged equally widely from the oddly poetic to the laboriously clunky.