North Korea puts Kim painting on show

North Korea has displayed a portrait of Kim Jong Un in public for the first time, with analysts saying the move could herald the building of a personality cult around the young leader.

But while the current leader’s daily activities and photographs of him are the mainstay of state media , in wider society he is not portrayed in the same omnipresent way, and no statue of him is so far known to exist.

That could be beginning to change, analysts said, after the visit of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel at the weekend. When Kim met him at Pyongyang International Airport separate giant portraits of the two men hung on the outside of the building, pictures showed.