{"id":39879,"date":"2021-12-17T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/17\/kim-jong-un-image-politics-north-korea-official-portraits"},"modified":"2021-12-17T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:00:21","slug":"rollercoasters-horses-and-weight-loss-10-years-of-kim-jong-un-image-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39879","title":{"rendered":"Rollercoasters, horses and weight loss: 10 years of Kim Jong-un image politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As North Korea marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il, we look at how official portraits of his son and successor have sought to portray him as both increasingly authoritative and popular<\/p>\n<p>Three generations of the Kim family have ruled North Korea with absolute authority since 1948, and analysts say the regime has used carefully crafted images to ensure their power.<\/p>\n<p>Outsiders regard Kim as a ruthless tyrant with an undying obsession about developing the country\u2019s nuclear weapons, even at the cost of starving the population. But North Korea\u2019s tightly-controlled state media shows something softer: Kim caressing weeping orphans, being mobbed by gushing female soldiers, or smiling broadly on a mound of potatoes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/17\/kim-jong-un-image-politics-north-korea-official-portraits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As North Korea marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il, we look at how official portraits of his son and successor have sought to portray him as both increasingly authoritative and popularThree generations of the Kim family have ruled No&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1918,421,40,92,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-il","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-photography","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39880,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39879\/revisions\/39880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}