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A picture dated 01 June 2006 shows a monument attendant wearing a badge with a portrait of the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in central Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea remains the leading exponent of the Socialist Realist school of artistic expression which dates back to the early revolutionary Soviet Union. Strident slogans, square jawed worker heroes and triumphal praise of the leadership add colour to the otherwise drab and concrete filled expanses of North Korea. EPA/ADRIAN BRADSHAW