38. Meet North Korea's New Girl-Pop Band

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/05/meet-north-koreas-new-girl-pop-band/276360/

Olga Khazan's article, "Meet North Korea's New Girl-Pop Band," informs about the new kind of entertainment culture in North Korea that Kim Jong Eun is allowing for the people and  ponders that his purposes could be to distract the people from the faime and from the smuggled pieces of entertainment from the outside world such as the South Korean dramas. To show the audience what she is talking about, Khazan provides a video of the MoranBong Band. She quotes the North Korean news agency for ethos and briefly describes the video in a satiristic tone. In getting to her point, Khazan states that pop music plays a big role in the regime's indoctrination of its citizens, especially when there is famine in the land. Khazan then concludes with the claim that perhaps the MoranBong band was created by Kim Jong Il to let the North Korean people to have entertainment from within so that they would not secretly get peeks of the outer world.

The intended audience of this article is the general public with medium education and a general background knowledge about North Korea's communist impact on the people. Olga Khazan's purpose in this article is to inform the Western world of what is going around in North Korea, especially in terms of popular culture. She also focuses on implying the injustice and oppression of the regime on the people by hinting that the regime constantly tries to block information of the outside world and to placate its citizens. Khazan successfully reaches her purpose using a satiristic and informative tone while referring to other sources for support.