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title: 'Mural of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il: "Uphold them forever as the sun of Juche!", Bukseong and Chollima Street, Pyongyang (photographed 2019)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-eternal-sun-of-juche-mural-pyongyang-2019/
description: A photograph of a large painted mural on a stone plinth at a street crossing in Pyongyang, apartment towers behind.
section: Collection
---

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# Mural of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il: "Uphold them forever as the sun of Juche!", Bukseong and Chollima Street, Pyongyang (photographed 2019)

A photograph of a large painted mural on a stone plinth at a street crossing in Pyongyang, apartment towers behind. It shows Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, both smiling and waving, above a crowd holding flowers and balloons, with the caption 'Let us uphold them forever as the sun of Juche!' The tell: the leaders are shown as the source of light and warmth and the crowd as joyful devotion, so loyalty is presented as a shared emotional identity rather than an argument.

## Text on the object

Original (Korean) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
주체의 태양으로 영원히 받들어모시리!
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Let us uphold them forever as the sun of Juche!
```

Caption line read from the 1280 px image; the Korean has no explicit object, so 'them' (the two leaders shown) is taken from the picture. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

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