North Korean paintings are displayed in “Art Exhibition DPRK. A Country of Great People” at the Museum of Decorative Arts in central Moscow.

Paintings on display in “Art Exhibition DPRK. A country of Great People” at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Moscow. A woman visits an exhibition of North Korean art at a museum in Moscow, Russia. What is billed as the biggest exhibition of North Korean art held outside the reclusive state is the latest sign of warming ties between Moscow and Pyongyang, and evidence of their increasingly tight geopolitical embrace in the face of what they say is a hostile West.

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