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title: 'Arirang Mass Games: national flag formed by card-holding performers, Pyongyang (photographed 2007)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/arirang-mass-games-flag-card-display-2007/
description: A photograph from the stands of an Arirang mass-games performance in 2007 shows the red star and white disc of the DPRK flag formed as a huge card-stunt…
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# Arirang Mass Games: national flag formed by card-holding performers, Pyongyang (photographed 2007)

A photograph from the stands of an Arirang mass-games performance in 2007 shows the red star and white disc of the DPRK flag formed as a huge card-stunt display by thousands of children holding coloured placards. The tell is identity fusion: each performer is only one pixel of the national emblem, so the individual and the state image become one. Context: the spectacle was state-organised in Pyongyang during the Kim Jong Il period.

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