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title: 'Newspaper page on a Pyongyang Metro reading stand: Kim Jong-un at Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, New Year 2017 (photographed 2017)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-newspaper-kumsusan-new-year-visit-subway-stand-2017/
description: A close photograph of a glass-fronted newspaper stand in the Pyongyang Metro, 2 January 2017, with commuters at the edges.
section: Collection
---

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# Newspaper page on a Pyongyang Metro reading stand: Kim Jong-un at Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, New Year 2017 (photographed 2017)

A close photograph of a glass-fronted newspaper stand in the Pyongyang Metro, 2 January 2017, with commuters at the edges. The page shows a large photograph of Kim Jong-un standing with officials, military officers and a wreath at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, under a headline reporting his New Year visit there. The tell: the leader is placed at the mausoleum of his predecessors (transfer of legitimacy), and the same page is posted for every passenger to read (manufactured consensus by placement).

## Text on the object

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

```
경애하는 최고령도자 김정은동지께서
새해 2017년에 즈음하여 금수산태양궁전을 찾으시였다
```

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

```
Respected Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the occasion of the new year 2017
```

Headline only, read from the 1280 px image; the article text below it is too small to read and is not transcribed. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← "결사옹위" (defend to the death): roadside sign with armed figures, North Korea (photographed 2017)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-defend-leadership-to-the-death-roadside-sign-2017/) [Passenger reading Rodong Sinmun, Puhung Station, Pyongyang Metro (photographed 2017) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rodong-sinmun-reader-puhung-station-2017/)

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