[EARLY RARE NORTH KOREAN EPHEMERA].

조쏘친선과 쏘베트문화순간. [Chosso chinsŏn-gwa Ssobet'ŭ munhwa sungan].
[Korean–Soviet Friendship and Soviet Cultural Week, October 14 - 23 1949].

Pyongyang. No publication details. 1949. Stock ID #219428

Advertising or propaganda flyer to commemorate the first anniversary in 1949 of the establishment of Soviet-North Korean friendship in 1948, 14.5 x 19.5cm, text in Korean. Flyer in very good condition, colours bright and crisp.

The flyer refers to a 1949 state-sponsored celebration to mark the first year anniversary of formal diplomatic relations between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Soviet Union, thereby showcasing Soviet support for Kim Il Sung's regime. In 1949 it was planned that a Friendship Tower would be built to honour Soviet soldiers who liberated Korea from Japanese occupation in 1945, and such a tower already appears behind the family to the right, typical of Soviet commemorative architecture topped with a red star. This tower wouldn't be built until 1959, but resembles the tower in this image.

Dressed in national costume, a Korean family is gazing toward an idealised tower along left margin resembling Spasskaya or 'Saviour' Tower overlooking Red Square in the Kremlin. A heavenly tower symbolic of North Korea's idealised future progress through co-operation with the Soviet Union. The little girl enthusiastically waves a Soviet flag, and the family with their North Korean flag is placed in an idealised landscape where agriculture flourishes, electricity is abundant and industrialisation is developing apace.

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