Springer, an author and curator of the 2002 exhibition Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Budapest, collects about 150 b&w photos from North Korea--many never published before--drawn
from the Hungarian National Museum and the Military History Institute and Museum of the Ministry of Defense of Hungary and originally sent to Hungary by the Korean Central News Agency to garner
sympathy during the war. They show the war, reconstruction, and the country's politics, people, agriculture, industry, culture, and education. Most of the photos are official. Information on
the photos and their origins is included, and an essay by Bal獺zs Szalontai, who teaches at Mongolia International U., Ulaanbaatar, details living conditions during the war. Distributed by
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