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"The Day of (Being) a Strong Prosperous Nation is right before our eyes." (Top) "Keeping up the hard work outside and in the home ('in public and private?) in everything this year" (Bottom)
Richly decorated, Yŏnggwang is one of the two showcase subway stops that most foreigners visit and terminate at. It is located next to the Koryo Hotel and the Party's complex. From outside, it is one of the most modest stations in the system, featuring a simple staircase. Completed in 1987, this is the most recent station in the system along with the Puhŭng station.
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Visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTOga-rTF4 for a six-stop ride on the Pyongyang Metro!
Arirang - 2011 - Pyongyang - North Korea
Grand Mass Gymnastic and Artistic Performance
Native home of the big leader, Kim Il-sung
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
Pyongyang again, taken from the hotel. The city can be pretty deceptive. On the surface it looks quite developed, with the high-rise buildings and all. Take a closer look at the infrastructure and you'll realise how run down they are. The buildings look empty too. Our guide had an (official) explanation for this. The residential areas in Pyongyang are only partially occupied so that the South Koreans can move over to Pyongyang when reunification takes place.
The sign on the train reads Pyongyang - Dandong, not Beijing; this part of the train, for North Koreans, only goes as far as the border.
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.
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo says goodbye to Vice Chairman Kim Yong Chol as he departs Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on October 7, 2018. [State Department photo Ron Przysucha / Public Domain]
Finally in this shot you can start to see some lights. On the rare night we were out after dark we were able to see most apartments were lit by single florescent bulb.
«100일전투를 힘있게 벌려 올해를 강성대국건설에서 결정적전환의 해로 되게 하자!»
Empty shop windows, cracks in freshly renovated façades, and propaganda nonsense everywhere – this is a typical Pyongyang street. Seen in Yonggwang Street.
Pyongyang, DPRK.
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Night view of the river Daedong, with the Grand People's Study House, Kim Il Sung Square and the new Pyongyang Mansudae housing complex to the left, the May Day stadium in the background, and the Juche Tower to the right. Cheap energy efficient Chinese LED lighting contributes to giving the city a new face.
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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/