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title: Rodong Sinmun public reading stand on a Pyongyang Metro platform (photographed 2012)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rodong-sinmun-metro-reading-stand-2012/
description: A photograph of a free-standing, double-leaf newspaper reading stand on a Pyongyang Metro platform, 6 August 2012.
section: Collection
---

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# Rodong Sinmun public reading stand on a Pyongyang Metro platform (photographed 2012)

A photograph of a free-standing, double-leaf newspaper reading stand on a Pyongyang Metro platform, 6 August 2012. Two framed Korean-language newspaper pages are posted for passers-by, with a socialist-realist mural of workers behind. Distribution is the point: the same state-approved pages are placed where every commuter passes. The tell is manufactured consensus by uniform exposure to one account of events. The Commons category links such stands to Rodong Sinmun; the masthead is not visible here.

[← Two billboards: unity around the revolutionary headquarters, and the banner of the Three Revolutions, Pyongyang (photographed 2012)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dprk-revolutionary-hq-unity-three-revolutions-billboards-2012/) ['What would you do?' Israel Defense Forces infographic →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/what-would-you-do-idf-infographic-2012/)

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