Anna Broinowski - Aim High in Creation! - A One-of-a-Kind Journey Inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine

Copyright © 2015 by Anna Broinowski

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First North American Edition 2016

First published by Penguin in Australia under the title The Director Is the Commander

Excerpts from DPRK foreign language publications, films and songs included with gratitude and thanks to the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Broinowski, Anna.

Title: Aim high in creation!: a one-of-a-kind journey inside North Korea’s propaganda machine / Anna Broinowski.

Other titles: Director is the commander

Description: First North American edition. | New York: Arcade Publishing, 2016. | Previous edition published under the title: Director is the commander (2015).

Identifiers: LCCN 2016021762 (print) | LCCN 2016035442 (ebook) | ISBN 978-1-62872-676-3 (hardcover: alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-62872-677-0 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Motion picture industry—Korea (North). | Aim high in creation! (Motion picture) | Broinowski, Anna.

Classification: LCC PN1993.5.K63 B76 2016 (print) | LCC PN1993.5.K63 (ebook) | DDC 791.43095193—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016021762

Cover design by Laura Klynstra

Cover photographs taken by Nicola Daley. Internal and author photographs taken by Nick Bonner, Nicola Daley, and Wendy McDougall, all from Aim High in Creation!, courtesy of Unicorn Films