Two billboards: unity around the revolutionary headquarters, and the banner of the Three Revolutions, Pyongyang (photographed 2012)
A photograph of two large painted billboards on a plinth in front of high-rise apartment blocks in Pyongyang. The left shows workers and soldiers beneath 'Let the millions of soldiers and people unite as one around the headquarters of the revolution!' The right shows a raised fist holding a flaming torch beneath 'Onward, march forward under the banner of the Three Revolutions!' The tell: unity and advance are stated as commands to an already marching mass, and the headquarters of the revolution is named as the point everyone gathers around.
- Date
- August 6, 2012
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Workers' Party of Korea (public billboards; issuer not named on the objects)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Party
- Leader
- Kim Jong UN
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesBandwagon
- 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 3.0, per Wikimedia Commons)
Nicor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
[left billboard:] 혁명의 수뇌부를 중심으로 천만군민이 일심단결하자! [right billboard:] 3대혁명의 기치높이 총진군앞으로! [on the torch band and the red banners:] [illegible]
[left billboard:] Let the ten million soldiers and people unite as one around the headquarters of the revolution! [right billboard:] Under the banner of the Three Revolutions, onward in a general advance! [on the torch band and the red banners:] [illegible]
Slogans read from the 1280 px image; the large lettering on the left billboard is partly hidden by a pole and the lettering on the torch and banners is not legible. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.
