Asia Literary Review - Asian writing

Art | North Korea
North Korean Posters: the David Heather Collection
David Heather

David Heather has an extraordinary collection of posters from North Korea, published in North Korean Posters: The David Heather Collection (2008).

'More fruit through the development of pomiculture'

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