Footsteps (Ri Jong-o song)

"Footsteps" (Korean: 발걸음) is a Kim Jong-un theme song that appeared before "Onwards Toward the Final Victory". The tune was released in 2009[2] and aired while his father (Kim Jong-il) was alive, before Kim Jong-un had a formal position.[3]

"Footsteps"
Song
Composer(s)Ri Jong-o (Korean: 리종오)[1]
Footsteps
Chosŏn'gŭl
발걸음
Revised RomanizationBalgeoreum
McCune–ReischauerPalgŏrŭm

Lyrics
External media
Audio
"Footsteps" (mp3 at Naenara)
"Footsteps" (instrumental) (mp3 at Naenara)
Video
"Footsteps" (on YouTube)

The song is calling to follow "Our General Kim's footsteps".[4] The song begins:[1]

Tramp tramp tramp
the footsteps of our General Kim
spreading the spirit of February
tramp tramp tramping onwards

According to Yonhap, "General Kim" appears to be a reference to Kim Jong-un and February is a birth month of his father.[1] Additional song lyrics:[4]

Footsteps, Footsteps
spreading out further the sound of a brilliant future ahead
tramp, tramp, tramp, ah, footsteps

gollark: Still, Anrak's 2103rd for rudeness, and it's steadily trending up...
gollark: Top 500 seems basically impossible, since there are a lot of nations and all.
gollark: Also sports are banned for some reason? I don't know why I picked that.
gollark: Notelia has somehow ended up with capitalism but basically no employment and extremely high tax.
gollark: I think Notelia tried that for a bit but it went horribly wrong somehow.

See also

References
  1. "Propaganda Song for Heir Apparent Played in North Korea". Retrieved 2013-06-03.
  2. "North Korea's Latest Hit Single: The Kim Jong-un Theme Song!". CBC News. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  3. Branigan, Tania (2012-07-06). "North Korea's Kim Jong-un gets new official theme song". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-06-02.
  4. "How A Shy Boy From North Korea Became The World's Scariest Dictator". Retrieved 2013-06-02.

Further reading
  • Cathcart, Adam; Korhonen, Pekka (2016). "Death and Transfiguration: The Late Kim Jong-il Aesthetic in North Korean Cultural Production". Popular Music and Society. 40 (4): 390–405. doi:10.1080/03007766.2016.1158987. ISSN 0300-7766.


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