The making of a new icon in North Korea
North Korea’s best designers likely working up a whole new iconography for their likely next leader, Kim Jong-un. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Orville Schell, who directs the Center on US-China relations at the Asia Society in New York, about how the North Korean government uses imagery to create an indentity for itself and the state.
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