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Propaganda infiltrates a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) news article about a heroic ginkgo tree:
There is some 720 years old hero gingko tree in Ichon Township of Ichon County, Kangwon Province of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It, planted in 1282, has been called “hero gingko tree” from the period of the Fatherland Liberation War (1950-1953).
During the war, people there and military transport vehicles used to shelter themselves beneath the tree from the U.S. air raids.
One day in August Juche 41 (1952), a U.S. fighter spotted a truck of the Korean People’s Army hidden under the tree and attempted to attack it. But the fighter ran into the tree to be crashed. From then on, the people of Ichon have called the tree “hero gingko tree.”
Although the article doesn’t include a photo, it does include the physical measurements of the tree, as well as its nut production:
The tree is 20 meters high, 7.8 meters in the circumference of the lower part of the trunk and 14 meters in diameter of its umbrella.
It opens flowers in the middle of April and bears some 100 kilograms of fruits every year.
On second thought, perhaps propaganda and ginkgo nuts are suitable companions.