Hillside slogans for Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, across the Yalu from Supung (photographed 2009)
Two lines of white characters laid out on a hillside above a DPRK river village, seen from the Chinese bank. The left line reads 'Long live the revolutionary idea of the great leader Comrade Kim Il-sung!' and the right 'Long live the great leader Comrade Kim Jong-il!' The tell is scale and placement: the slogans are sized to be read by the whole settlement, and by anyone across the river, pairing the late founder's doctrine with the living leader's person.
- Date
- May 12, 2009
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Workers' Party of Korea (street sign, issuer not named on the object)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Party
- Leader
- Kim Jong Il
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesIdentity fusion
- 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 3.0, per Wikimedia Commons)
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Text on the object
위대한 수령 김일성동지 혁명사상 만세! 위대한 령도자 김정일동지 만세!
Long live the revolutionary idea of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung! Long live the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il!
Left line: the middle characters are tightly spaced and the reading '혁명사상' is the best fit but is less certain than the rest. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.
