@KCNA_KoreanNews
I can see that the DPRK, far from being a “hermit kingdom", is a socialist nation following Kim Jong-il's maxim to "plant feet in our land, and lift eyes to see the world."👍✌️

North Korea, 1980s, Lyrical Dancing: Wangjaesan Dance Troupe
2/Wangjaesan Art Troupe - 走っていこう未来へ / 달려가자 미래로 / Dash to the future
[2017]
I'm able to see that by creating “Art [that is] Juche-oriented, revolutionary…national in form and socialist in content” that “encourage[s] creative workers and
3/"and artists to produce works of high ideological and artistic value”, North Korea is advancing its socialist contemporary culture in keeping with the times.👍✌️

By studying, assimilating & appropriating foreign dance & music styles into DPRK's own unique contemporary culture
4/North Korea (IMHO) is demonstrating that the international community has nothing on DPRK's passion for high culture. Perhaps for similar reasons
Why Russians Are So Good At Ballet,

the DPRK is so good at fashioning its own contemporary Socialist culture.

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Q: Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?
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Wangjaesan Art Troupe - 走っていこう未来へ / 달려가자 미래로 / Dash to the future
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Concert theme: Celebrating the successful launch of first Intercontinental Ballistic Rocket Hwasong-14.
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