Title: Sea of Blood (Isaiah 34:1)
Content First, let's take a look at the contents of this text, from Isaiah 34:1 to 35:10. God is judging, and he is inviting witnesses before the judgment. He invites the nations and all things on the earth as witnesses, saying, "Come near, you peoples, and listen. Give ear, you people. The earth and all that it is filled with. Hear, you earth and all that dwells in it." Before doing this, God is calling witnesses of judgment like this (verse 1).
The prophet then tells us that God was angry with all nations. In particular, he is angry with the armies that every nation has and wants to annihilate them (verse 2). God kills soldiers. The corpses of the dead soldiers will be piled up on the streets, and just as mountains fall when there is a flood, so the mountains fall with blood pouring out like a flood (verse 3). Isn't this the sea of blood
Now, God makes all kinds of wild animals live in such a barren land. God made the barren land a dwelling place for pelicans and hedgehogs, and owls and crows came to live in it, so that it would become a land where no man could live and no one could build a kingdom on it. is. The old palace that was there, where thorns will sprout, and only nettles and thistles will grow in the fortress, and the palace will become a den of scavengers and a home for ostriches, wild beasts mingling with wolves, owls and kites. It is that they reproduce there (verses 11-15).
And the prophet says: Here, I will cite a translation of the <KJV> Bible. “Read the book of the Lord carefully, and not one of these shall be missing, not one shall be unpaired, for the mouth of the Lord has commanded it, and his spirit has gathered these things.”
Our main concern today is 'Blood Sea'. This 'sea of blood', where God kills all people, and all living things, so that the mountains are stained with blood, and the hills crumble because of the flowing blood, this is our concern. The wrath of God, the sea of blood that God makes, and the scene of judgment, we want to take a look at these.
In North Korean literature, there is a "Blood Sea". If you look at the <Literary Arts Dictionary> published by the North Korean scientific encyclopedia publisher, there are nine pages of introductions to <Blood Sea>. I will briefly introduce one passage from there. “It is a film that was created and performed during the anti-Japanese armed struggle organized and led by the great leader of the revolution, Kim Il-sung, and translated into a movie.” This work is described as "a work based on the anti-Japanese armed struggle in the colonial era".
When I saw this, I thought that this work realistically portrayed how harsh the atrocities of the Japanese Empire were. In the midst of such atrocities, a woman awakens to a sense of independence. So, the developmental stage of consciousness in which the woman participates and works in armed struggle with her three children, the practice, participation in the revolution, and the confidence in the future that she will live in a new future, a humanized community, these are the elements of this <Blood Sea> > It was something you could see in the work. This work was also released in North Korea as a play, as a movie, as an opera, as a song, as a novel, and has been introduced to us recently.
In the <Modern Korean Language Dictionary>, which was compiled jointly by the North Korean Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute for Language Science, I looked up the 'Blood Sea' item and found the following. "It means a sea filled with blood spilled, and it refers to the blood that was shed by revolutionaries and people through the murders of imperialist aggressors and the ruling class and dyed the whole world red. For example, the sea of blood in North Gando. Gwangju City, Jeollanam-do Province, which is drowning in a sea of blood due to the atrocities of the fascist gang," is an example of this.
Here in <Bada of Blood>, the female protagonist who appears as a mother is saying these words in the final stage. In these words, the theme, the main tone, the purpose of the socialist literature called <Blood Sea>, and what these things do are well expressed. The heroine's mother stands in front of a large crowd and shouts: "I lost my husband in the subjugation of the Japanese. Yesterday I lost my cute youngest son to the enemies. The enemies burned my husband to death. The youngest son, ten years old, was shot with seven bullets in his small chest and closed his eyes. I bury the corpse of that young child with my hands, which has not yet cooled down, and I ran with you here to avenge my revenge. How could this have happened to me alone? To solve this resentment, our sons and daughters took up guns and destroyed the enemy My son is also fighting in the guerrillas. Today, I am sending my only daughter into the guerrillas. Gentlemen, the only way we can live is to revolutionize. We must revolutionize to avenge revenge and protect our country. We can find them and live well in the future. When we fight for our lives, we who are immersed in a sea of blood will surely become independent..."
He still has not finished his speech, but it is enough to quote this far. The theme of the work called <Sea of Blood> is to get revenge. In their words, 'let's take revenge'. Here, the adversary or the enemy is used in reference to Japan and its minions, landowners, etc. And the word 'Blood Sea' describes such a tragedy that the Japanese entered the hearts of Koreans and killed and burned all the villagers. To maximize hatred for the enemy, to wage an armed struggle, to join the ranks of the revolution...