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title: '"위대한 장군님의 선군사상으로 사회주의위업을 끝까지 완성하자!": Songun billboard, Pyongyang (photographed 2011)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/songun-thought-billboard-pyongyang-2011/
description: 'A Pyongyang street billboard shows four figures in profile: a helmeted soldier with a rifle, a helmeted worker with a rocket launcher, a technician with…'
section: Collection
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# "위대한 장군님의 선군사상으로 사회주의위업을 끝까지 완성하자!": Songun billboard, Pyongyang (photographed 2011)

A Pyongyang street billboard shows four figures in profile: a helmeted soldier with a rifle, a helmeted worker with a rocket launcher, a technician with rolled plans and a hammer, and a woman with a sheaf of grain. A red banner reads 'Strong and prosperous nation'; missiles and jets fly behind. The slogan reads 'Let us carry the socialist cause through to the end with the great General's Songun idea!' The tell: identity-fusion, with army, industry and farmers drawn as one body behind the leader's doctrine.

## Text on the object

Original (Korean) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
위대한 장군님의 선군사상으로 사회주의위업을 끝까지 완성하자!

[red banner:] 강성대국
혁명적군인정신
결사관철
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Let us carry the socialist cause through to the end with the great General's Songun idea!

[red banner:] Strong and prosperous nation
Revolutionary soldier spirit
Carry it out at all costs
```

Read from the 1600 px image; the main slogan and banner words are clear. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← "선군정치의 위대한 승리 만세!": paired roadside murals (photographed 2011)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/songun-victory-roadside-murals-2011/) ["21세기의 태양 김정일장군 만세!": billboard, Pyongyang (photographed 2011) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sun-of-21st-century-kim-jong-il-billboard-2011/)

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