Artworks cement Kim’s ‘cult of personality’ and debuted as part of North Korea’s celebrations of the end of the 1950-53 war with the South
A series of extravagant oil paintings of Kim Jong-un have been unveiled after a ban on painting North Korea’s authoritarian leader was lifted.
The artwork depicts Kim greeting children and agricultural workers as a benevolent ruler as well as emphasising his military prowess and gazing out from Mount Paektu, the North’s highest peak and central to the mythology of the Kim family dynasty.
A symbolic white horse – long used in state propaganda to boost leader Kim’s prestige as “supreme leader” – also features prominently.
The paintings, which cement Kim’s “cult of personality”, debuted this week as part of the North’s celebrations of the end of the 1950-53 war with the South.