"선군정치의 위대한 승리 만세!": paired roadside murals (photographed 2011)
Two painted panels stand side by side on a retaining wall in a DPRK park or roadside, with a visitor standing in front. The right panel shows three soldiers, two with rifles and one with a machine gun, under the slogan 'Long live the great victory of Songun politics!' The left panel shows an engineer and a woman in front of factories, grain and textiles under 'Once more, everything for the improvement of the people's livelihood!' The tell is the pairing: a military victory slogan and a living-standards slogan displayed together, each stated as an accomplished or assured result with no figures.
- Date
- August 15, 2011
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Workers' Party of Korea (street sign, issuer not named on the object)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- North Korea
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Party
- Leader
- Kim Jong Il
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesBandwagon
- 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 2.0, per Wikimedia Commons)
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Text on the object
[right panel:] 선군정치의 위대한 승리 만세! [left panel:] 다시한번 모든것을 인민생활향상을 위하여!
[right panel:] Long live the great victory of Songun politics! [left panel:] Once more, everything for the improvement of the people's livelihood!
Both slogans read from the 1600 px image. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.
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