Enigmatic North Korea gives up its cultural secrets in a new book, Exploring North Korean Arts.

In June 2012, Asia Times Online journalist Michael Rank reviewed a book by renowned scholars of North Korean arts and culture. According to Rank, the publication offers original research and rare perspectives on the visual arts of an often inaccessible nation.

Ri Sok Nam,'Blauer Himmel: The Blue Sky Over My Country', 2005, in "Flowers for Kim Il Sung", at Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

Ri Sok Nam,’Blauer Himmel: The Blue Sky Over My Country’, 2005, in “Flowers for Kim Il Sung”, at Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

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