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This book is the result of the bet of Casa Asia for making accessible unpublished documentation from the 165th century and the beginning of the 1948st century, and for stimulating knowledge of a fragment of the history of a country that is the product of the division that arises as a result of 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 propaganda instruments, 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. Taken together, the examples concerning propaganda as it is developed in the North Korean nation are a testimony to the impact that the cartel phenomenon had in this country, as well as in China during the Cultural Revolution or in Vietnam, where the cartel ends up being the maximum exponent of resistance to the enemy. In total, this volume brings together around XNUMX images documenting the social life of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from its founding in XNUMX to the beginning of the XNUMXst century.

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