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.
- Date
- August 6, 2012
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Workers' Party of Korea press (newspaper reading stand, Pyongyang Metro; title not visible in image)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Party
- Leader
- Kim Jong UN
- Audience
- Domestic public
- 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
- Openly licensed (CC BY-SA 3.0, per Wikimedia Commons)
Roman Bansen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
