Juche Tower tribute plaques from foreign study groups, Pyongyang (photographed 2018)
A wall of stone plaques in many colours, each inscribed in a different language, fills an interior of the Juche Tower. Legible lines include Juche study groups and friendship societies from Cyprus, Malta, India, the Gambia and Uganda, with dates in the 1970s and early 1980s, and slogans such as 'Long live Kimilsungism'. The tell: manufactured consensus, a wall of foreign endorsements is displayed as evidence of worldwide support for the leader's ideology.
- Date
- March 5, 2018
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- DPRK state (Juche Tower, 1982); plaques donated by foreign Juche study groups and friendship societies
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Kim Il Sung
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Manufactured 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
- CC BY 2.0 (photographer Mauricio Moreno via Flickr; Commons file page states licence)
Mauricio Moreno (Flickr), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
[A selection of plaques whose English wording can be read; many others are in other languages or too small to read] JUCHE IDEA STUDY GROUP NICOSIA - CYPRUS PRESENTED BY MALTA LABOUR PARTY LONG LIVE KIMILSUNGISM JUCHE IDEA STUDY GROUP OF INDIA
Excerpt of the English plaques only; hosted file is a JPEG re-encoding of the Commons PNG thumbnail. the wall holds well over a hundred plaques in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and other scripts, most not legible at 1280 px. The English plaques are as read from the image and may omit small lines.
