The 2018 calendars obtained by TBS are available at hotels and bookstores in North Korea as well as in the few North Korean restaurants remaining in foreign countries. They show goods manufactured in the country, including liquor, ginseng and shoes.
North Korean calendars have previously heavily featured the military or the Kim family.
But Seoul-based Daily NK notes that this year's calendar is more geared toward promoting North Korean consumer goods, as well as landscapes and cooking.
Daily NK says that this suggests that sales of earlier "propaganda calendars" were falling. Sky more