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평양 승리거리.
The blocks on the right were demolished to make way for the new high-rise construction project in Mansudae area (Changjon-dong, aka Changjeon Street).
www.nkeconwatch.com/2012/04/02/dprk-announces-2nd-renovat...
Jokingly known as "Beverley Hills", this complex of villas set in a spacious park at the northern end of Pulgun Street (붉은거리) is mainly used by representatives of foreign companies and other foreign guests.
Coordinates: 39.03314N 125.70789E
When it is chilly out, the Pyongyang traffic controller wears coat and boots.
Cropped from a photo taken by EricMartin
After a few days of mild weather, heavy snow fell again on March 1st, turning Pyongyang into a black and white world.
Pyongyang's Ice Rink, an ice skating and hockey facility - a beautiful building whether at day or night.
humanitybesideus.net/2012/11/03/off-the-train-first-impre...
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/
The Metro uses rolling stock imported from Berlin, Germany. While North Koreans like to pretend that the trains were built locally, the graffiti in German on windows give the carriages' former lives away.
Because electricity is scarce, only the ends of the cars are lit, making for a very dark ride. Incidentally, each car prominently displays portraits of the leaders, close to the working light fixtures.
Visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTOga-rTF4 for a six-stop ride on the Pyongyang Metro!
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Arirang - 2011 - Pyongyang - North Korea
Grand Mass Gymnastic and Artistic Performance
Kim Il-sung Prize Winner
Arirang is a song symbolic of the Korean nation, proud and homogenous. This song, best permeated with the national sentiments, was a team song when the north and the south formed a single team to participate in the World Table-Tennis Championship and the World Junior Football Championships. Arirang in the past that depicts the sorrow of the nation full of vicissitudes and tragedy is now turned into a song of all nation that aspires after a prosperous and reunified Korea denying present departure or division but envisaging the meeting and reunion.
How many people are separated into the north, the south and abroad!
How painful is their misery and misfortune.
So their joy of reunion will be great but all the greater will be the jubilation of national reunification. Let us all join hands for the day when the long-cherished cause of reunification is achieved and the 70 million Korean sing the song " Arirang of Reunification"
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From as young as 5 years old, citizens are selected based on skill level to serve for the Arirang Festival for many years. In most cases this will be the way of life for them until retirement.
The opening event of the two month festival are the mass games, which are famed for the huge mosaic pictures created by more than 30,000 well trained and disciplined school children, each holding up coloured cards, in an event known in the West as a card stunt, accompanied by complex and highly choreographed group routines performed by tens of thousands of gymnasts and dancers
Showing the North Korean half of the train to Sinuiju on the Chinese border. We were in two standard-issue Chinese sleeper carriages attached to the end of the local train. Behind me there was an inpromtpu game of volleyball taking place on the platform.
A new tile factory started production in North Korea some time ago, and now the regime keeps the people busy with tiling shops and restaurants all over Pyongyang. It doesn't seem to matter these restaurants and shops are empty because there is nothing to eat and nothing to buy – as long as they are decorated with shining new tiles the regime is satisfied.