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April 2012 trip to DPRK, North Korea for the 100th year birthday celebrations for Kim Il Sung - check out my North Korea blog at americaninnorthkorea.com/
Pyongyang looks like a modern city from a distance only. On closer inspection, visitors will notice how shoddy and run-down most buildings are. Except for ridiculously wide avenues, there is hardly any urban infrastructure. Blocks just rise from the mud, surrounded by small garden plots and shabby makeshift huts.
Pyongyang, DPRK.
Some of the most impressive residential buildings can be found on Reunification Avenue, where this picture was taken. It is said that residents prefer lower floors, as access is easier when power goes out...
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Impossible to have a night tour! I asked 250 times...Not possible, so this pix has been taken thru the car. The statues are lighten during festive times. The Mansudae Grand Monument was erected in April, 1972 to commemorate the 60th birthday of President Kim Il Sung. It is located on Mansu Hill in front of the Korean Revolutionary Museum and the huge mosaic of Mt. Paektu.
The bronze statue of the late President Kim is 66 ft. / 20 m. high and looks out over Pyongyang below. On either side of his statue are giant stone replicas of the Korean flag and the Workers Party of Korea flag. On either side of these flags are over 200 almost life-size bronze statues of various military and civilian figures in heroic poses.
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평양상점.
The shop of choice for Pyongyang's foreign community and a few Koreans who are lucky enough to put hands on some foreign currency.
평양지하철도 황금벌역.
The Pyongyang Underground is subject to the ridiculous secretiveness of the N. Korean regime. It does not show up in Pyongyang maps. Foreigners are not allowed to use the underground – they are denied entrance by the omni-present watchdogs. Sometimes, tourists are invited to take a mock ride. They probably don't realize that it is always the same two model stations they get to see.
The Pyongyang Maternity Hospital is a state of the art medical facility in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo prepares to attend meeting with Chairman Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on October 7, 2018. [State Department photo Ron Przysucha / Public Domain]
In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 file photo, New North Korean soldiers chant and march at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, during a parade of thousands of soldiers commemorating the 70th birthday of the country's late leader Kim Jong Il. North Korea raised hopes Wednesday for a major easing in nuclear tensions under its youthful new leader, Kim Jong Un, agreeing to suspend uranium enrichment at a major facility and refrain from missile and nuclear tests in exchange for a mountain of critically needed U.S. food aid. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
The socialist drabness and shabbyness has infected the buildings of Western organizations as well ...
Young Pioneer Tours 2013 Chinese National Day Tour.
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North Korea - Pyongyang - 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.