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@ariusderr What's the deal with North Korea's obsession with giant statues? I mean, they've got these massive bronze figures all over the place. Is there some deeper cultural significance we're missing? 

We published a good explanation of this back in 2019. The TLDR is that North Korea emulated Stalinist leader worship by building statues of founder Kim Il Sung. By the 1970s there were entire doctrines and procedures about building Kim statues everywhere, and it evolved into a symbolic method of distinguishing Kim from other communist world leaders (Stalin, Map, Lenin etc).

We published a good explanation of this back in 2019. The TLDR is that North Korea emulated Stalinist leader worship by building statues of founder Kim Il Sung. By the 1970s there were entire doctrines and procedures about building Kim statues everywhere, and it evolved into a symbolic method of distinguishing Kim from other communist world leaders (Stalin, Map, Lenin etc). https://www.nknews.org/2019/11/bow-to-the-leader-a-history-of-north-koreas-iconic-and-ubiquitous-kim-statues/