Three roadside murals: "Long live the great victory of Songun politics!" and two companion slogans, Pyongyang (photographed 2014)
A photograph of three painted murals set into a stone retaining wall in Pyongyang. Left, a technician at a CNC machine under a 'new-century industrial revolution' slogan; centre, three soldiers under a call to be a fortress and shield defending Pyongyang, 'where the headquarters of the revolution is'; right, three armed soldiers under 'Long live the great victory of Songun politics!' (Songun: the DPRK's 'military first' policy). The tell: each slogan states a victory or duty as settled fact, with no figures.
- Date
- June 23, 2014
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Workers' Party of Korea (public murals; 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 2.0, per Wikimedia Commons)
Clay Gilliland (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
[left panel:] 새세기 산업혁명의 기치높이 최첨단돌파전에로! [centre panel, above the soldiers:] 혁명의 수뇌부가 있는 [below:] 평양을 결사옹위하는 성새가되고 방패가되자! [right panel:] 선군정치의 위대한 승리 만세!
[left panel:] Under the banner of the new-century industrial revolution, onward to the cutting-edge breakthrough battle! [centre panel, above the soldiers:] Where the headquarters of the revolution is [below:] Let us be a fortress and a shield that defend Pyongyang to the death! [right panel:] Long live the great victory of Songun politics!
Slogans read from the 1280 px image; the small 'CNC' lettering on the left panel is not part of the slogan. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.
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