This artist mocks North Korea with its own propaganda

[webfact]

This artist mocks North Korea with its own propaganda
By Anna Fifield

SEOUL — Sun Mu thought he was done with the North Korean authorities, people who had controlled every aspect of his life for a quarter-century. But it turned out that the North Korean authorities weren’t done with him.

The artist — who once made military propaganda in North Korea — was preparing for his first solo show in Beijing late last year. The paintings satirizing North Korea’s platitudinous slogans — “North Korea is a good place to live” — and showing Kim Jong Il under an upside-down North Korean flag were hung on the gallery walls. The names of North Korean leaders were laid on the floor so that all guests would have to walk over them to enter the exhibition.

Then, on opening day, Chinese police showed up, along with a bunch of North Koreans wearing Kim Il Sung badges. Beijing may not have much love for Kim Jong Un’s regime, but it has even less love for works that mock authoritarian Communist institutions.

Full story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/this-artist-mocks-north-korea-with-its-own-propaganda/2015/11/05/96d81722-8234-11e5-8bd2-680fff868306_story.html

-- The Washington Post 2015-11-10

[waldroj]

Don't mock these guys, they've got more medals than a Thai policeman!

Seem's Prayut's Chinese buddies share his sense of humour when it comes to instutional mockery!

[Srikcir]

"people from the North Korean Embassy and Chinese officials had come down and blocked the streets, I was really surprised"

Sun Mu is wonderfully naive of China's government support for suppression of basic human rights. With time and more experience in the free world he will become a strong voice for all people's human rights. I am Sun Mu.

Maybe Prayut the democratic soldier will invite him to Thailand to do some renderings of the National Council of Peace and Order returning Happiness to the Thai People. And maybe he'd do his interpretation of Prayut's 12 Values.

But he better set aside some time for attitude adjustment invitations.