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All important places, buildings, monuments and statues are illuminated.
DPRK, Sept 2011 (scanned slide)
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/
평양 4·25문화회관.
Opened in 1975, this building "serves as a centre of mass cultural education for soldiers of the Korean People's Army and the working people", according to the Pyongyang review. It is the site of various "mass meetings" on official holidays such as the KPA Foundation Day. Originally called February 8 House of Culture in remembrance of the formal creation of the KPA on 8 February 1948, it was renamed after Kim Il Sung in 1978 directed that the KPA Foundation Day be changed from 8 February to 25 April, the alleged day of establishment of his anti-Japanese guerrilla army in 1932.
While the DPRK propaganda keeps prattling about a "breakthrough towards high tech", the general technical level of the country can only be described as primitive. Many vehicles just look like scrap on wheels.
The first pizza joint in North Korea - Pyongyang, DPKR.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/499942...
The Monument to the Workers' Party of Korea was erected on the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation.
Laborers are represented by the hammer, intellectuals by the calligrapher's brush, and farmers by the sickle.
Political slogans adorn the rotunda ('Long live the Korean Workers' Party, which has coordinated and let the Korean people in all their victories") and the buildings behind ("One hundred victories - One hundred battles")