NEW YORK (AP).- It’s a simple scene that repeats itself around the world. A man gently lifts a small child by the arms as they reach the top of the escalator inside a modern department store. In this particular photograph, the man and the child are in…
From North Korea Propaganda to Art Exhibit in Seoul, Defector Song Byeok Shows His Work
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) —.- The face in the painting is North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s, smiling beneath his trademark sunglasses and wall of black hair. But the body is Marilyn Monroe’s, pushing down her white dress in an updraft. This striking…
From North Korea Propaganda to Art Exhibit in Seoul, Defector Song Byeok Shows His Work
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) —.- The face in the painting is North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s, smiling beneath his trademark sunglasses and wall of black hair. But the body is Marilyn Monroe’s, pushing down her white dress in an updraft. This striking…
Exhibitions: Art or Propaganda? North Korea Exhibits a Major Show of Official Art in Moscow
MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Chubby-cheeked, hard-working and joyous but also ready for military action is how North Korea presents its people at a major show of official art from the secretive state in Moscow. “And Water Flows Beneath the Ice” exhibits 40 works…
North Korean Statues Open Wounds in Zimbabwe
By: Angus Shaw, Associated Press Writer
HARARE (AP).- The two North Korean-made statues were meant to honor a national hero but people were so offended because of Pyongyang’s links to a blood-soaked chapter of Zimbabwe’s history that one was taken down…
Annie Comic Ends, but the Redhead’s Fate Uncertain
By: Sharon Cohen, AP National Writer
CHICAGO (AP).- Talk about a hard-knocks life: She has been jailed in North Korea, kidnapped repeatedly, accused of murder, trapped in a cave, roughed up by gangsters. And she’s just a kid — more precisely, a red-h…