North Korean Poster Art Hype

July 28, 2008

BBC says they’re getting popular here but most–in my opinion–seem bland and give me the whillies.

The text on this one reads “Let’s give a bigger part to the advantages of the socialist treatment system through greater effort.”

Btw, did you know the BBC World Service has a Flickrstream? Including sets on youth crime, Cuba, Crime in the Caribbean, illegal fishing in Sierra Leone and the Amazon.

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