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L: Ms. Lee
R: Mr. Kim
All tour groups are escorted at all times by the same four people: two guides, a driver and a cameraman. Mr Kim was our 'main' guide and did all the talking and answering questions on the coach journeys, whilst Ms. Lee took the backseat and only spoke at some specific tourist spots. Both were fluent in Mandarin.
Mr. Kim was a very knowledgeable guide with a good sense of humour. He seemed to get on with everyone - us the tourists and the various other guides we met along the way, joking around all the time.
Upon arrival in Pyongyang, we got off the train not knowing what to expect. As Mr Kim lined us up ready to exit the train station, three North Korean guys tried to push in before us. Mr. Kim stood in their way to try and stop them but they shoved past anyway; I saw a look of anger and slight embarrassment on our guide's face. From that moment, I knew Mr Kim was a good guy, and that there were good guys and assholes in NK - just like anywhere else.
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The Pyongyang Metro is located 361ft underground, making it the deepest located metro system in the world - conveniently doubling as a nuclear bunker. The trains are old carriages from Germany which were bought up by North Korea in 1999 as they were heading for the scrap heap. Pyongyang now claims the trains were built in North Korea, but despite attempts to conceal their origin, some old graffiti tags can be seen on the carriages. The metro stations in Pyongyang are not named after their geographic locations, but have names set to remind the citizens of the 'socialist revolution', such as Comrade, Red Star, Glory and Complete Victory.
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A brief description of the Pyongyang Metro with a line map.
Pyongyang Metro opened in 1973, ahead of Seoul's first subway line in 1974, but it remains at two short lines. Station names are after ideological concepts rather than placenames. Stations are deep underground and protected by thick iron doors, to protect from nuclear radiation in case American imperialists bomb Pyongyang.
The 1987 expansion, which consists of Puhung and Yonggwang stations on the Hyoksin Line (red), is normally the only section foreign visitors are allowed to ride on.
A few Flickr members, including Kernbeisser and Ray Cunningham, have traveled extensively in North Korea and have some excellent first-hand photos of the Pyongyang Metro.
For comparison purposes, there is a brief profile of Seoul Subway as well (though it is cut off from this photo). Seoul continued to add to its subway system until it became one of the greatest in the world by passenger volume and total trackage - and addition of new lines still continues.
Nous avons survolé la zone démilitarisée et lourdement gardée qui chevauche la frontière entre la République populaire démocratique de Corée et la République de Corée. Le contraste est très visible de jour mais il est encore plus marquant de nuit : les lumières du sud et de Seoul se transforment en obscurité totale dès la frontière passée, à la rare exception de Pyongyang, seule tache de lumière dans un pays obscur. Peu de gens ont l’opportunité de zoomer sur Pyongyang, ce qui fait de ce photocollage une bonne occasion de l’explorer : vous ou moi n’approcherons sans doute jamais la ville de plus près.
We flew over the de-militarised zone, the heavily guarded border between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Republic of Korea. You see the contrast by day, but it’s even more striking at night: the brightly lit area on the left is Seoul and the south of the Korean peninsula, and it turns into almost complete darkness right after the border... the only small spot of lights is Pyongyang. I could zoom up on the capital city of DPRK, not many people are in a position to do so… explore the city in the Big Picture mapping, that’s probably as close to it as you’ll ever get to the city, and me too: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/09/Pyongyang_photo...
Expedition 65 earth observation composite of Pyongyang, North Korea photographed by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet (created with iss065e242955 - iss065e242995).
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North Korea - Pyongyang - Guide at the USS Pueblo.
On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a Navy intelligence vessel, is engaged in a routine surveillance of the North Korean coast when it is intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. According to U.S. reports, the Pueblo was in international waters almost 16 miles from shore, but the North Koreans turned their guns on the lightly armed vessel and demanded its surrender. The Americans attempted to escape, and the North Koreans opened fire, wounding the commander and two others. With capture inevitable, the Americans stalled for time, destroying the classified information aboard while taking further fire. Several more crew members were wounded.
Finally, the Pueblo was boarded and taken to Wonson. There, the 83-man crew was bound and blindfolded and transported to Pyongyang, where they were charged with spying within North Korea's 12-mile territorial limit and imprisoned. It was the biggest crisis in two years of increased tension and minor skirmishes between the United States and North Korea.
The United States maintained that the Pueblo had been in international waters and demanded the release of the captive sailors. With the Tet Offensive raging 2,000 miles to the south in Vietnam, President Lyndon Johnson ordered no direct retaliation, but the United States began a military buildup in the area. North Korean authorities, meanwhile, coerced a confession and apology out of Pueblo commander Bucher, in which he stated, "I will never again be a party to any disgraceful act of aggression of this type." The rest of the crew also signed a confession under threat of torture.
The prisoners were then taken to a second compound in the countryside near Pyongyang, where they were forced to study propaganda materials and beaten for straying from the compound's strict rules. In August, the North Koreans staged a phony news conference in which the prisoners were to praise their humane treatment, but the Americans thwarted the Koreans by inserting innuendoes and sarcastic language into their statements. Some prisoners also rebelled in photo shoots by casually sticking out their middle finger; a gesture that their captors didn't understand. Later, the North Koreans caught on and beat the Americans for a week.
On December 23, 1968, exactly 11 months after the Pueblo's capture, U.S. and North Korean negotiators reached a settlement to resolve the crisis. Under the settlement's terms, the United States admitted the ship's intrusion into North Korean territory, apologized for the action, and pledged to cease any future such action. That day, the surviving 82 crewmen walked one by one across the "Bridge of No Return" at Panmunjon to freedom in South Korea. They were hailed as heroes and returned home to the United States in time for Christmas. Incidents between North Korea and the United States continued in 1969, and in April 1969 a North Korean MiG fighter shot down a U.S. Navy intelligence aircraft, killing all 31 men aboard. In 1970, quiet returned to the demilitarized zone.
The Juche Tower (officially the Tower of the Juche Idea) is a monument in Pyongyang, North Korea. The tower is named after the principle of Juche, developed by Kim Il Sung as a blend of autarky, self-reliance, nationalism, Korean traditionalism, and Marxism-Leninism.
Completed in 1982, it is sited on the eastern bank of the River Taedong, directly opposite Kim Il Sung Square which is situated on the other side of the river. It was made to commemorate Kim Il Sung's 70th birthday.
The 170-metre (560 ft) structure is a four sided tapering 150-metre (490 ft) spire (the tallest in granite) containing 25,550 blocks (365 × 70, one for each day of Kim Il Sung's life, excluding supplementary days), dressed in white stone with seventy dividers and capped with a 20-metre (66 ft) high, 45 ton, illuminated metal torch.
Nous avons survolé la zone démilitarisée et lourdement gardée qui chevauche la frontière entre la République populaire démocratique de Corée et la République de Corée. Le contraste est très visible de jour mais il est encore plus marquant de nuit : les lumières du sud et de Seoul se transforment en obscurité totale dès la frontière passée, à la rare exception de Pyongyang, seule tache de lumière dans un pays obscur. Peu de gens ont l’opportunité de zoomer sur Pyongyang, ce qui fait de ce photocollage une bonne occasion de l’explorer : vous ou moi n’approcherons sans doute jamais la ville de plus près.
We flew over the de-militarised zone, the heavily guarded border between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Republic of Korea. You see the contrast by day, but it’s even more striking at night: the brightly lit area on the left is Seoul and the south of the Korean peninsula, and it turns into almost complete darkness right after the border... the only small spot of lights is Pyongyang. I could zoom up on the capital city of DPRK, not many people are in a position to do so… explore the city in the Big Picture mapping, that’s probably as close to it as you’ll ever get to the city, and me too: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/09/Pyongyang_photo...
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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USS Pueblo tour guide.
The USS Pueblo, docked on the bank of the Taedong River in Pyongyang is one of North Korea's proudest accomplishments in the war of the wills with the United States.
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During spring 2007 many trains on the lines around Pyongyang were hauled with diesellocomotives.
At the day of 18.04 the express to Beijing via Dandong was hauled with a powerful ex chinese DF4 diesel engine.
DPRK, April 2007 (scanned slide)
Traffic officer in the streets of Pyongyang. There is very fews cars in North Korea, but at every crossings, there is a female traffic officer who acts as if there were cars everywhere in a very quick choregraphy. On sunday, cars are not allowed in Pyongyang, to prevent from pollution...
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