North Korea Cold War Propaganda Collection: During the Cold War (roughly 1945–1991), North Korea was a tightly controlled communist state aligned with the Soviet Union and, to a slightly lesser extent, China. It emerged from the division of Korea after World War II as one of the most heavily militarized and ideologically rigid countries in the world.(ChatGPT)
North Korea Cold War Propaganda Posters:
Military:
1985 Become a young hero by helping build the Northline Railway!
1988 Let us become a fortress and a shield that protects the Great Leader and the Party Central Committee with our lives!
Anti-Western World:
1988 Postcard-Styled Leaflet for South Korea, Featuring a Soldier who Defected to North, North Korea
International Communism:
1969 Militant unity and solidarity
1970 Long live the militant friendly unity between the Korean people and the Cuban People !
Civilian Life:
1963 International Women’s Day
1984 Studying is the most important mission of students!
1985 Glory to the 40th anniversary of the founding of the glorious Workers’ Party of Korea by the great leader Comrade Kim Il-sung!
1987 More seafood for the people!
1989 For Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship!
1989 Welcome to Pyongyang!
Kim Il Sung: Leader during years 1948-1994:
All the peoples of the world praising Kim Il Sung
At a mining operation
At a mining operation
Burning books and documents
Criticizing & exposing collaborators
Devising the DPRK national flag and seal
Directing artillery fire
Directing the battle as a general
Encouraging children military students
Encouraging workers at a steel mill
Forming an anti-imperialist group
Giving instruction to a sewing business
Helping and instruction the farmers
Kim Il Sung as a student preparing for his long-term education
Kim Il Sung, the son of the [older] citizens
Mingling with the farmers
Receiving from his mother the gun that his father used for independence fighting
Taking care of the foot soldiers
Teaching & singing the national song to the people
The Great Father of the [North Korean] people
The Great Leader at the front lines (Korean War)
The Great Night
Visiting an elementary school
Visiting his grandparents after foreign travel
Visiting the public hearing office in Pyongyang
Visiting the site of a plentiful harvest
Visiting very young students
Welcoming students at the first day of Jin-Myeong School
With Kim Ch’aek, manufacturer of domestic firearms
Worrying about even one soldiers health
Kim Jong-suk: Kim Il-Sung’s first wife and mother of Kim Jong-Il:
Beginning her military service
Being interrogated by Japanese officials
Doing her duty by putting up anti-Japanese messages on a building
Doing her job by fighting the enemy
Helping her mother work on the landowners farm as a child
Instructing new women soldiers
Leading women soldiers into battle
Preaching independence [communism] to villagers
Protecting Kim Il Sung with her life
Saving children from a fire
She defeated a bad person who had been harassing children
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