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January 24, 2013

Human Pixels: North Korea's Mass Propaganda

Prospero, Prospero

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THE Arirang mass games in Pyongyang, North Korea, are the largest and most bombastic exercise of state propaganda in the world. Few foreigners are permitted to watch this summertime spectacle extolling the founding myths of the communist state.

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