North Korean Bronze Statue Building in Africa
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/Social-Sciences/Political-Science/Encyclopedia-Tyrannica-978-3-8382-7882-7.html" target="_blank" >https://www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/Social-Sciences/Political-Science/Encyclopedia-Tyrannica-978-3-8382-7882-7.html</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
North Korean Bronze Statue Building in Africa
Original language description
The encyclopedic box 1.16 deals with North Korean politcs in Africa. Since the 1970s, Pyongyang's state-run enterprise, Mansudae Art Studio, has created and built large-scale statues, monuments and memorials throughout the continent, including in nations such as Senegal, Namibia, Angola and Zimbabwe. These initiatives honour the fight against colonial rule, national sovereignty, or pan-African solidarity, reflecting the ideological underpinnings of North Korea's own revolutionary discourse. The statues are a way of getting the country's culture out there and making money, and they help the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to get political influence in places that like their anti-Western stance. The artistic style, which is distinctly North Korean, is known as socialist realism, and the subjects reflect local histories and leaders. The illustration of the DPRK's unique method of authoritarian soft power projection is through ideological art and monumentalism beyond its borders.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50700 - Social and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Encyclopedia Tyrannica: A Research Guide to Authoritarianism
ISBN
978-3-8382-1882-3
Number of pages of the result
3
Pages from-to
201-203
Number of pages of the book
900
Publisher name
Ibidem Verlag
Place of publication
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UT code for WoS chapter
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