Something I adore about modern DPRK propaganda posters is how much they focus on material goals rather than purely ideological ones.

For instance, this one is about growing wheat production and the ongoing agricultural revolution, and that people should keep working hard at making the dream of self-sufficiency a reality.

This one is about taking pride in the nuclear achievements of Korea, and likewise about how their hard work is paying off.

Propaganda posters in the West have mostly fallen to the wayside, but they’re mostly what I like to consider “negative propaganda” contrasted to Soviet and DPRK “socialist realism”, “positive propaganda”, with a major focus on elevating humanity, the progress of socialism, and material gains. “Negative propaganda” is largely ideological, with an appeal to vague idealistic concepts like “freedom” and especially enemies of the state, notably in the West racist caricatures of Asians and anti-communist propaganda pieces. In the modern age, we still see these pseudo-posters as memes and headline images, with this propaganda being incredibly focused on propagating great manism, with images of Putin or Lukaschenko as Hitler, Xi as Winnie the Pooh, or racist caricatures of Kim Jong-un – any issues an “enemy” nation is going through can be blamed on psychopathic and tyrannical leaders. There’s almost no “positive propaganda” in the West focused on actual material circumstance or progress, with the closest examples being propaganda related to Great Men like Trump’s “Make America Great Again” or Biden’s “Build Back Better”, vapid sloganeering that places individuals in leadership roles as dictatorial over any progress that can be made and agitating people simply to vote and do absolutely nothing else.