Here is a very interesting site full of North Korean propaganda concerning the American forces – naturally some of it is pretty gruesome. Note the site is in Russian.
The picture is from the above mentioned site.
North Korean Propaganda and the Evil Yankees
Previous post: Teaching Korean in Vietnam: Seem Familiar?
{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }
Great find! It really is absolutely f’ing insane how f’d up the NK propaganda machine really is. It is so hard to wrap one’s mind around such utter lies.
It is even harder to believe how some people in SK believe such rubbish as well.
Absolutely mind-boggling!
The paintings are not exactly Social Realist style, more like the covers of American paperbacks from the ’50s. The miguk soldiers have great demonic expressions.
No hablo Russian–what’s the background on these, when were they done etc.?
I’m actually a bit disappointed: where are the sexual assaults?! Anti-USFK propaganda without depictions of a Korean woman in a white chogori being mercilessly raped is third-rate at best.
The soldiers look more Eastern European. Russians?
Acutally when Ruskies rushed into NK, they raped women and beat up men. These drawings may be for those acts. Russian marking were substituted with the US marks?
Soldiers helmets look Russian.
The picture with the dogs is reminiscent of Abu Ghraib.
Where did all the eyelids go?
Wook,
Demons don’t have eyelids…
Well… Replace American uniforms with North Korean uniforms and the victims with South Koreans and increase frequency by a factor of… say 10.
The gold wedding band on the left finger of one soldier in the first photo added a realistic touch. Depicting cigarettes in the hands of soldiers in two photos was a peculiar symbol of Yankee evil since most Korean and Chinese men also smoke.
There is an antique market in Beijing where one can, or at least could while I was there several years ago, buy original and reproductions of Cultural Revolution posters and old books. Among the original posters I picked up is one extolling the virtues of feminism with Chinese characteristics and a display of different Mao badges and posters with order numbers. The central post office in Beijing wouldn’t let me mail them out, so I brought them home in my suitcase along with a Lei Feng biography for kids and an abacus primer with PC story problems like one asking the kids to calculate how many Koreans and Chinese were killed by US imperialists in the Korean War or the number of US laborers who died in industrial accidents.
Not a coincidence that #7 has the face of a young Kim Il Song, is it?
#9 (sawing at the head) brings to mind the 17th/18th century 조선 punishment for a woman who killed her husband–though she would have been planted in the ground up to her neck and all passers by (except nobility) were required to take at least one saw stroke at her head. The man had no punishment for killing his wife “with reason” (i.e. the same as the “칠거지악” valid reasons to be granted a divorce which included: theft, having a disease, and not getting along with the mother-in-law).
Funny how history repeats itself, even in the world of artistic depiction.
I hate it when I get 생매장’ed by the 미제야수. Ruins my entire day.
I thought they had black eyes. That’s the way it is on “Supernatural.”
Uh. Sure. These images could not possibly be absurd.
Photo-journalists, who document horrible events with their camera, are often asked, “Why didn’t you put the camera down and help that poor fella out?”
Regardless of the moral and professional reasons for doing what they do, I don’t think their critics could think those journalists are even half as bad as communist painters, who ask poor Koreans being butchered by eyelid-less Americans to stay still so that they may document American atrocities on canvas for the world to see.
Ah, brave and courageous painter-journalist comrades, paint on! Paint on!
Uh. Sure. These images could not possibly be absurd.
Photo-journalists, who document horrible events with their camera, are often asked, “Why didn’t you put the camera down and help that poor fella out?”
Regardless of the moral and professional reasons for doing what they do, I don’t think their critics could think those journalists are even half as bad as communist painters, who ask poor Koreans being butchered by eyelid-less Americans to stay still so that they may document American atrocities on canvas for the world to see.
Ah, brave and courageous painter-journalist comrades, ignore the critics and paint on! Paint on!
–oops…FIXED!
BTW, I couldn’t help but notice a certain interesting feature on those uniforms, which leads me to believe that the artist mistook zombie crash test dummies for Americans.
Ahahahahahhahaha. North Korean propaganda, always paintings and drawings.
I can only wait for the day when the average North Korean who supports the policies of the party (and what with the confiscation and famines, there many not be too many, not if they are “average” anyhow) when they are shown live footage or photographs of the liberated kwan-li-so network. Worse yet, how they’ll react if the liberating forces take them to those facilities and force them to speak to the survivors or to bury the dead.
On that note, some South Korean leftists should go as well, since they actually consider this claptrap to be true.
pretty powerful and disturbing propaganda for a people with no other source of news…
Any people with no Freedom of Speech is probably controlled and manipulated by their gov’t. NKorea just took a page from China’s textbooks. China still does the same stuff. The propaganda and censorship will only get worse in NKorea. It’s the only way to keep the sheep rolling along. What’s stupid is that we in the western ‘civilized’ countries are mostly sheep as well. Few actually bother checking supposed ‘facts’ and don’t make use of their rights. In the US, most voters have a hard time understanding what the real differences between dems’ and ‘pubs are. Most of the people voting for Obama had no idea what his voting record was……
Gawd was right about referring to people as sheep
oh yeah, isn’t that painting like really really really old?
I think that’s what Americans wore in the Korean war….
unless most NKoreans still think Americans wear those outfits.
I doubt any NKoreans except some soldiers have even seen Americans since the end of the war.
You must log in to post a comment.
{ 2 trackbacks }