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«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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평양체육관.
Completed in 1973, Pyongyang Gymnasium (aka Pyongyang Indoor Stadium) can seat 16,000 persons and is mainly used for large mass rallies such as the "national meetings" on national holidays.
My hotel traffic girl on duty at 7:00 am sharp. I think that is a "prohibited" building behind her so they did not like this location. This was taken in the morning haze and the time listed 7:51 is accurate.
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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평양 순안구역에 있는 사회안전원, 인민경비대 렬사묘.
The poor state of the pine trees around the monument illustrates the lack of fuel in North Korea.
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
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/
North Koreans were taught their whole lives that the state would provide xxxxx, for instance: apartement, education, job, etc.
Our guide was proud of their "free system', he lives in a apartment provided by his dad'
s company, he will get another one few years after he get married.
They do not have to be a "house slave", they do not have to struggle for paying the loan, they do not have subprime mortgage...!
They are happy in a poor country, but they are still happy
Spiritually more than materially I guess.
Pyongyang, DPRK.
Fishermen on eerie Yanggak Island on a beautiful Pyongyang early morning.
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