Content note: Caricatured enemy soldiers shown bayoneted and drowned, one holding a bomb marked 'USA'; wartime North Korean battle poster. This object is shown as it was published. Why
영용한 인민군장병들이여! (Heroic Soldiers of the People's Army!): North Korean Korean War poster, charge on Busan
Hand-painted poster of Korean People's Army infantry with bayonets and a grenade charging beside tanks under the DPRK flag toward a sign reading 'Busan' (부산). In the foreground caricatured enemy soldiers lie bayoneted or drowned, one holding a bomb marked 'USA'. The headline orders the troops to wipe out the 'wonssu' (원쑤, mortal enemy). The tell: the opponent is a label and a caricature (name-calling).
- Date
- 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea (issuer not named on the visible sheet; attributed by the Marine Corps Archives)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Leader
- Kim Il Sung
- Audience
- Own forces
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Korean War
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Leader
- Kim Jong Un
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections, David P. Bigler Collection COLL/31503, via Flickr), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 2.0 (USMC Archives photograph, per Commons file page); underlying poster's own rights not separately established
USMC Archives (Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections, Quantico), David P. Bigler Collection COLL/31503, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons; downscaled.
Text on the object
영용한 인민군장병들이여! 원쑤들을소탕하여·부산으로· 제주도로·반[cut off at the right edge of the scan] 개갈이돌진하라! [on a signboard in the lower centre: 부산] [on the bomb held by the fallen figure at lower left, and on a helmet at the bottom: USA]
Heroic soldiers of the People's Army! Wipe out the enemies, to Busan, to Jeju Island, [cut off at the right edge of the scan] [word printed '개갈이', unclear] charge! [on a signboard in the lower centre: BUSAN] [on the bomb held by the fallen figure at lower left, and on a helmet at the bottom: USA]
Read from the 960 px image and an enlarged crop; the word '개갈이' (third line) is printed as shown and its meaning was not resolved. The right-hand line is cut off by the scan edge. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.
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