In North Korea, June 25 is the start of “Struggle Against US Imperialism Month.”
To celebrate, the pariah state released two striking postage stamps depicting its promised annihilation of America.
The annual event commemorates the beginning of the North Korean military campaign to force American troops out of the South in 1950.
The comic-book-like images aren’t the first attempt to stamp out American imperialism with postage stamps.
The fists, guns, and nuclear warheads pointed at the US Capitol in the new 30- and 50-won stamps are just the latest threats in a long tradition of philatelic propaganda.
North Korea has issued hundreds of politically-themed stamps since 1946, and graphic anti-American motifs began appearing in the 1960’s.
Among the most notable is the 1969 stamp called International Conference of Journalists Against US Imperialism depicting a green-faced Richard Nixon speared by a flurry of fountain pens.....
https://qz.com/1017141/north-koreas-america-hating-postage-stamps-are-mini-masterpieces-of-anti-imperialist-propaganda/
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