These statues are of the Kim’s. Taking photographs in North Korea remains a difficult and risky task, with the government officials closely watching for any straying foreign tourists. According to Radio Free Asia, it is possible to argue that North Korea has the strictest media censorship system in the world. North Korean media outlets are an important branch of the government propaganda bureaucracy. In addition, the country’s primary goal is to indoctrinate and control common people, to explain to them what they should think about the world. Its media exists to distort the picture of the world according to the ever-changing demands of the ruling elite.
