"21세기의 태양 김정일장군 만세!": billboard, Pyongyang (photographed 2011)
A billboard between apartment blocks in Pyongyang shows a red flag with a star-and-wreath emblem, the national flag, a Workers' Party flag and a bank of red flowers. Beneath it the slogan reads 'Long live General Kim Jong Il, the Sun of the 21st century!' The tell is the sun metaphor: the leader is named as a source of light and warmth for a whole century, a glittering generality that carries the prestige of the flags and emblems beside it (transfer).
- Date
- September 2, 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 generalitiesTransfer
- 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)
Propaganda
Text on the object
21세기의 태양 김정일장군 만세! [upper left, partly hidden by foliage:] 21세[...] 김정일[...]입니다 김일성
Long live General Kim Jong Il, Sun of the 21st century! [upper left, partly hidden:] 21st [century ...] / Kim Jong Il [... is/are ...] / Kim Il Sung
The bottom slogan is clear. The upper-left text is partly hidden by leaves; only the fragments shown can be read and the sentence is not reconstructed. Translation by machine, not verified by a fluent reader.
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