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).
- Date
- January 2, 2017
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- DPRK newspaper (masthead not visible), posted on a public reading stand in the Pyongyang Metro
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Media
- Leader
- Kim Jong UN
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- TransferManufactured consensus
- Leader
- Kim Jong Un
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Openly licensed (CC BY-SA 2.0, per Wikimedia Commons)
jennybento (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
경애하는 최고령도자 김정은동지께서 새해 2017년에 즈음하여 금수산태양궁전을 찾으시였다
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.
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