On My Way To Korea

This is a continuation of the North Korean propaganda series.  For more information regarding the series or the North Korean dialect, please refer back to the first page, featuring women.

Pages in this series

North Korean

1. Women
2. Children
3. Anti-USA 1
4. Anti-USA 2
5. Army
6. Juche and Seon-gun
7. Great Leader
8. Other 1
9. Other 2
10. Anti-USA 3
11. Great Leader 2
12. Juche and Seon-gun 2
13. Other 3
14. Other 4
15. Other 5
16. Other 6
17. Other 7

South Korean

1. Extreme
2. Other 1
3. Other 2
4. Original

Here’s the seconds set of posters highlighting the ideologies of Juche and Seon-gun:

Our party shines with the gun of Seon-gun!
선군의 총대로 빛나는 우리당!

Accomplish a great victory through the power of Seon-gun!
선군의 위력으로 위대한 승리를 이룩하자!

Ideology, technology, and culture according to the demands of Juche!
사상도 기술도 문화도 주체의 요구대로!

Book: Kim Jung-Il (김정일),
Our style of socialism at the heart of the people brings certain victory
인민대중 중심의 우리 식 사회주의는 필승불패이다
Top: Let’s promote the superiority of our style of socialism!
우리 식 사회주의의우월성을 더욱 발양시키자!
Flag: Three Revolutions (3대혁명)

Seon-gun politics (선군정치)
celebration (경축)
Juche year 98 < 주체98 (2009) >

Hurray for the great victory of Seon-gun politics!
선군정치의 위대한 승리 만세!

Hurray for the ideology of the marvelous Juche!
위대한 주체사상 만세!

Next we’ll be looking at more various posters.

This is a continuation of the North Korean propaganda series.  For more information regarding the series or the North Korean dialect, please refer back to the first page, featuring women.

Pages in this series

North Korean

1. Women
2. Children
3. Anti-USA 1
4. Anti-USA 2
5. Army
6. Juche and Seon-gun
7. Great Leader
8. Other 1
9. Other 2
10. Anti-USA 3
11. Great Leader 2
12. Juche and Seon-gun 2
13. Other 3
14. Other 4
15. Other 5
16. Other 6
17. Other 7

South Korean

1. Extreme
2. Other 1
3. Other 2
4. Original

Here’s the second set of Great Leader posters:

Hurray for General Kim Jung-Il, the sun of the 21st century
21세기태양 김정일 장군 만세

Thank you to General Kim Jung-Il, our loving father
경애하는 아버지 김정일원수님 고맙습니다.

The Great Leader Kim Il-Sung will be with us forever
위대한수령김일성 동지는 영원히 우리와 함께 계신다

The General is our fate
장군님은 우리의 운명

Let’s honor and worship General Kim Jung-Il, the son of Mount Baek-du, for millions of years!
백두산의 아들 김정일장군을 천만년 높이 받들어 모시자!

Does anyone know if there is a special meaning to 총폭탄?

Let’s become ?bombs? that guard the Great Leader Kim Jung-Il with a do-or-die spirit!
위대한 령도자 김정일장군님을 결사옹위하는 총폭탄이 되자!

Kim Il-Sung: “The 21st Century will shine as the century of Kim Jung-Il.”
21세기는 김정일 세기로 빛날것입니다. 김일성

Become true loyal subjects who believe and follow the sincere Kim Jung-Il
일편 단심 김정일동 지만을 굳게 믿고 따르는 참된 충신이 되자!

April 15th is the birthday of Kim Il-Sung

Top: April 15: Sun Day (4.15 태양절)
Middle: 민족최대의 명절인 4.15 태양절 만세!
Bottom: Commemorating the enactment of Sun Day and the Juche era
추체년호.태양절 제정기념)

Next we’re looking at more Juche and Seon-gun posters.

This is a continuation of the North Korean propaganda series.  For more information regarding the series or the North Korean dialect, please refer back to the first page, featuring women.

Pages in this series

North Korean

1. Women
2. Children
3. Anti-USA 1
4. Anti-USA 2
5. Army
6. Juche and Seon-gun
7. Great Leader
8. Other 1
9. Other 2
10. Anti-USA 3
11. Great Leader 2
12. Juche and Seon-gun 2
13. Other 3
14. Other 4
15. Other 5
16. Other 6
17. Other 7

South Korean

1. Extreme
2. Other 1
3. Other 2
4. Original

Here’s the third set of posters which are Anti-USA:

Let’s smash them with one blow!
단매에 때려눕히자!

This and the next picture are from a carnival-like area in North Korea

Javelin contest (창던지기)
?Hit? the American invaders!
미제침략자들을 ?조알하라?!

Anyone understand the meaning of the words on the left?
It seems like it might be previous invaders or something.

?야로.호비.대추장.톡발이?
Shoot your arrow (활총쏘기)

Top: Let’s gather the forces of South and North Korea to drive out the American invaders
남북이 힘을 합쳐 미제침략자들을 쓸 어버리고
and achieve independence and unification!
자주 통일을 이룩하자!
Bottom: 10 cents (10전)
North Korean postage stamp (조선우표)

Top: Let’s cut up the American imperialists wherever they are in the world!
세계 이르는 곳마다에서 미제의 각을 뜨자!
Logo: Pyongyang Anti-American World Journalist Conference
반미세계 기자대회 평양
Description: Fighting and opposing the American imperialist invasion
미제국주의침략을 반대하여 투쟁하는
international conference about the duty of journalists around the world
전세계 기자들의 과업에 대한 국제회의
Bottom: North Korean postage stamp (조선우표)
10 cents (10전)

The people’s army are soldiers, so save them!
인민군 장병들이여 구원하여 달라!

Next we’ll be looking at another set of Great Leader posters.

This is a continuation of the North Korean propaganda series.  For more information regarding the series or the North Korean dialect, please refer back to the first page, featuring women.

Pages in this series

North Korean

1. Women
2. Children
3. Anti-USA 1
4. Anti-USA 2
5. Army
6. Juche and Seon-gun
7. Great Leader
8. Other 1
9. Other 2
10. Anti-USA 3
11. Great Leader 2
12. Juche and Seon-gun 2
13. Other 3
14. Other 4
15. Other 5
16. Other 6
17. Other 7

South Korean

1. Extreme
2. Other 1
3. Other 2
4. Original

Here’s the first set of posters which are Anti-USA:

Look at the American imperialist’s pitiful appearance!
보라! 미제의 몰골을!

We’ll punish those who provoke us
우리를 건드리는자 징벌할것이다!

Hat: NPT = Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Shirt: International Atomic Energy Agency (국제원자력기구)
Bottom: Severe judgment to the American imperialists and murderers!
미제와 그하수인에게 준엄한심판을!

Top: We do what we say we will do (한다면한다)
Bottom: We don’t say empty words (우리는 민말을 하지않는다!)

Top: If they invade, (침략전쟁을 일으킨다면)
Bottom: we’ll unleash revenge on the American pigs!
미국놈부터 박살낼것이다!

Train: United strong country (통일강성대국)
Bottom: The dog barks, but we act (개는 짖어도 행렬은 나간다!)

Don’t commit brutal crimes you American imperialists!
미제는 함부로 날뛰지말라!

Top: Our people’s bruised enemy, eternal mortal enemy
우리인민의 피맺힌 원쑤. 백년 숙적
Bottom: Death to the American imperialists!
미제에게 죽음을!

Merciless punishment to the American imperialists!
미제에게 무자비한 징벌을!

Top: Force follows coercion. (강박에는 강타로.)
Bottom: Merciless punishment follows “chastisement”!
《응징》에는 무자비한 징벌로!

Let’s expel the American imperialists and unite Korea!
미제를 몰아내고 조국을 통일하자!

America is the Axis of Evil
미국이야 말로 악의축의  나라이다

Next, we’ll be looking at the second half of the Anti-USA posters.

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