Henry VIII had Hans Holbein the Younger, who painted him as overweight and beset by ill health, yet with the lingering swagger of a monarch projecting power to the world.
In the opaque court of Kim Jong-un, though, it is hard to know which artist painted the vast portrait of North Korea’s supreme leader atop Mount Paektu, said to be part of a wave of new images he commissioned to further his “cult of personality”.
