This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. --------------287C74F6722B Pyongyang, October 21 (KCNA) -- The ideological and cultural infiltration by the imperialists is in essence a means of aggression and intervention under the signboards of "cooperation" and "exchange" and a vicious method to paralyze the sound consciousness of the people with reactionary bourgeois ideas and degenerate them. Rodong Sinmun says this in a signed article today. The daily notes: Today when the cold war came to an end, the imperialists are resorting to the ideological and cultural infiltration in carrying out their dominationist aim. At present the imperialists are concentrating ideological and cultural infiltration on the socialist countries and the countries with a strong independent stand against imperialism. Their infiltration is chiefly aimed at instilling individualism into the minds of the people and disintegrating socialism from within. They are arguing that the comfort and interests of individuals are more precious than those of the country and the revolution, society and the collective and accordingly, one should oppose socialism and follow capitalism. If their ideological and cultural infiltration is allowed, the collectivist idea, the foundation of socialism, will be degenerated and, furthermore, socialism gained with blood will collapse. If socialism, the ideal and desire of the popular masses, is to be built and completed, the ideological work should be thoroughly strengthened and, at the same time, the vigilance against the ideological and cultural infiltration by the imperialists be heightened and the struggle to prevent it be intensified in every way. KCNA Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------287C74F6722B--