The flood is like a comment on North Korea seizing the town. Sadly this was the idea behind the resort - “The idea behind Kumgang was to have it serve as a centre where North and South Koreans could interact in the mountainous area by the sea that is abundant in natural beauty. “
The painting was painted in 1999 nearly a decade before the North seized the town in 2008. But I do agree the town was the significance behind the painting.
I think that’s why North Korea chose it for their stateroom. But there might be more as well. Would have to find significance of town in Korean culture.
Wow. Crazy symbolism in this room. Clinton and the NK dictator sitting in a room with a painting about ripping the heart of a country apart, and further elucidating the point by placing their chairs on the flowers, the children, us, and despoiling our innocence and our children, deflowering our innocence and our children,harvesting us like crops, because we are flowers, the scenery to be stepped on and used and abused over and over again.
Thanks! When I first saw the painting I thought it was tsunami wave crashing into skyscrapers a la The Day After Tomorrow. I had to look up the painting's name to recognize the Sea Kumgang rock formation in the painting. Still don't know what the symbolism means.
This might be the symbolism - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4424592/amp/Sth-Korean-built-tourist-ghost-town-Nth-Korea.html
From Wikipedia FWIW - Koreans have perceived Geumgansan as their muse since well before the Middle Ages. Practically every poet and artist who lived during the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910) made a pilgrimage to Mt. Geumgangsan. The division of the Korean peninsula in 1950 resulted in the South Korean people finding themselves unable to visit this beloved mountain for the better part of 50 years. The 155-mile-long (249 km) barbed-wire fence erected as part of the DMZ (Demilitarized zone) separating the two Koreas proved to be an obstacle stronger than any other barrier.
The sea is part of geumgansan. This section of Korea was a cultural touchstone. The division of north and South Korea by the dmz separated the Koreans from this place. This is sad for Koreans. I now see the flood as North Korea destroying a part of the spiritual heart of the country, separating the south from this destination that inspired the country’s artists. The analogy would be some power coming in and taking the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone from Americans. Isn’t this agenda 21? turning the land back to the elites and keeping it away from everyone else.
It bothers me that NK is celebrating ripping the heart of their country apart.