“In order to improve the lives of the people, Kim Il-sung visited the farmers and told them to grow more rice.” Exhausted and weathered from several weeks of propaganda training in the DPRK, I found myself unconsciously slipping into a state of complacence with the tour guide’s narration. North Korea’s Three Revolutions Exhibition follows suit with many of the other foreigner-friendly sights around Pyongyang. Kim Il-sung’s greatest fans, staunchly nationalistic and frustratingly vague, enthusiastically narrate the tours. I withheld the urge to inquire further about the mental capacity of Korean farmers, who were apparently unable to make the connection between