Kim Il-sung portrait flag pin beside a national flag patch, North Korea (photographed 2007)
A close photograph of dark cloth carrying two items: a small enamel pin in the shape of a waving red flag with the Workers' Party emblem and a round portrait of a man in a suit and tie, and below it a cloth patch of the North Korean national flag. The Commons title names the pin as a Kim Il-sung pin. The tell: transfer, the leader's portrait is set on a flag and worn as a badge, tying his person to the party and the state.
- Date
- August 2, 2007
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- DPRK state (pin maker not named); worn by the public
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Kim Il Sung
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Transfer
- 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-SA 2.0 (photographer (stephan) via Flickr; Commons file page states licence)
(stephan) (Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Text on the object
No printed or legible text on the pin or the flag patch.
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