Painting the picture of Kim Jong-il slender, dressed a la Marilyn Monroe bloom. A dove flying above it, and that dislodged a feather lying on the ground.
Tragically, the painting is the work of artists of North Korea, Song Byeok, which in the past said they were proud to paint "Dear Leader" in its propaganda posters. He turned the attitude, when the authorities sent him to the regime's most famous prison in the communist country. Hunger forced him to flee.
Now, these defectors living in South Korean capital, Seoul. He was formerly a part of propaganda, switch stance, which he strongly criticized the leaders to make his country trapped in hunger, isolation, and economic collapse. "The day I finish this work, he died," said Song, as published by Reuters on Monday, December 26, 2011 night.
The death of Kim Jong-il, ACCORDING to him, is proof. "That he's not immortal creatures, but brittle, like a pigeon feathers," said Song. "I think, would be better if he made the North's condition improved and no longer hungry before he died."
During the power, Kim Jong-il, who died at the age of 69 years, using art to propaganda. One day, he even once kidnapped a director and forced him to make films for him.
Song claimed to have never come face to face with Kim. Every morning, he was assigned only give a sketch of the way to go government propaganda. "How can ordinary people I met with Kim Jong-il? He is the sun," said 42-year-old artist.
Song as well as other North Koreans, once adored and served on Kim Jong-il, also on his father, founder of the dynasty, Kim Il-sung.
However, starvation as a result of mismanagement of chronic post-disaster interrupted his admiration. After repeatedly hit by flooding, the condition of North Korea when it has reached the point of despair.
In 2000, Song and his father who tried to cross the river Tumen famine to China, hoping for food from relatives there.
However, the poor, the father dragged down the rapids, while Song was arrested and dragged into forced labor camps. Until one day, on a frosty winter, Song tormented because he and other prisoners were given a thin clothing like in the summer.
As a result, the fingers of his right hand has an infection and had to be amputated, he was also very sick, almost dead. Finally the guards were let go.
After that, out of North Korea's Song was determined. In 2002, leaving his mother and sister, he managed to escape to Seoul. After her mother died, in 2007 he brought along his sister and other family escaped with the help of a broker from China. "If we have enough to eat in North Korea, I will not go," said Song.
Despite losing several fingers, Song returned holding a paintbrush. A number of his works show the girls the North's sunken-eyed and smiling, the children who had wandered, surround Kim Jong-il.
After Kim Jong-il dies, his son aged about 28 years old Kim Jong-un will receive the baton, as the third generation who will lead the North. However, Song has not been planning to paint it. "He was too young," said Song.
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