North Korea | North Korea: The weight of history | The weight of history.

This book is the result of the bet of Casa Asia for making previously unpublished documentation from the 20th century and the beginning of the 20th century accessible XXI, and to stimulate knowledge of a fragment of the history of a country that is the product of the division that arose from a conflict that has marked international relations and the physiognomy of the Southeast Asian region. The images it contains include, first of all, paintings that are at the origin of posters understood as instruments of propaganda, whose printing multiplies the dissemination of the message. The image “says” without words and the text “speaks,” and this makes the poster become an instrument of mass mobilization. Altogether, the examples concerning propaganda as it is developed in the North Korean nation are a testimony to the impact that the phenomenon of posters had in this country, as in China during the Cultural Revolution or in Vietnam, where the poster ends up being the maximum exponent of resistance to the enemy. In total, this volume brings together around 165 images that document the social life of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from its foundation in 1948 until the beginning of the century. XXI.

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