1950s North Korea
아래 포스팅은 한국전쟁 휴전협정 이후, 1950년대, 북한의 이모저모를 볼 수 있는
보기 드문 사진으로 2013. 3. 28일자, 영국의 <Daily Mail online>에 게재되었다.
Life under the first Kim:
Snapshots found in antique shop give rare insight into North Korea in the 1950s
From a Communist parade to a crowd of laughing schoolchildren, this collection of 1950s photographs offers
a fascinating glimpse into the daily lives of post-war North Koreans.
The grainy black and white pictures - taken in the early years of 'Great Leader' Kim Il-Sung's rule after the Korean War - came to light after a collector stumbled across them in a dusty antique shop in Czechoslovakia.
The rare snapshots are in contrast to state-issued photographs of military drills that have emerged from modern North Korea in recent weeks, as relations between the secretive state and its neighbour to the South grow increasingly sour.
But there is also evidence of the Communist rule that remains in place in the isolated country
more than 50 years on, in photographs of flag-bearing North Koreans marching en masse.
Petr Doubrava was astonished to happen across the atmospheric black and white images
as a member of a Czechoslovakian expedition in the years after the Korean War ended in 1953.
had handed them over in exchange for some books and 'a few tens of euros'.