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Maternity entrance in Pyongyang. You have to remove your shoes to put slippers, and to wear a white blouse. I didn't play doctor since i was 8!
© Eric Lafforgue
A soldier on duty outside the May Day Stadium.
Arirang is held in May Day Stadium in Pyongyang for almost two months each year in September and October. The stadium holds 150,000 people, but due to the nature of the spectacle only about 40,000 seats are available for the audience. It starts at 8pm and lasts for 90 minutes.
Arirang is reported to have 100,000 performers including a card section of 20,000 students. The card section is essentially a giant display of 20,000 human pixels that is capable of split second changes.
The other 80,000 performers are beautiful women, soldiers, young people, gymnasts, singers, muscians, acrobats, or children as young as four or five. They are not paid for their performance.
Just watching a softball game in Pyongyang downtown - kids like everywhere in the world back from school.
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A picture taken from the Yanggakdo International Hotel back in May 2002. The hotel is situated on Yanggak Island in the middle of the Taedong River and is where many tourists stay when visiting the capital of North Korea (it's also easier for the authorities to stop tourists walking out of the hotel and wandering into the city by themselves!). The hotel is 47 storeys high and topped by a revolving restaurant giving great views over the city.
In 2016 Otto Warmbier, a US tourist, was arrested after allegedly taking a poster from the hotel and ended up in a coma whilst in captivity (he died shortly after being repatriated to the US).
The pyramidal shaped building in the distance is the empty concrete shell of the Ryugyong Hotel. Construction started in 1987 on what would have been the tallest hotel in the world but was halted in the early 1990s due to lack of money (as a result of the collapse of the USSR which was North Korea's biggest donor at the time). In 2008 construction resumed again and the building was clad in mirrored glass panels, however the interior has never been completed.
The other prominent building on the left side of the picture is the Koryo Hotel, another hotel for tourists which is topped by two revolving restaurants.
A number of buildings have been constructed along the riverside since this picture was taken (Kim Jong Un went on a construction spree nicknamed 'Pyonghattan' after he came to power in 2011).
City view of Pyongyang. The pyramid-shaped building is the Ryugyong Hotel, under construction since 1987. Picture taken from the 30th floor of the Yanggakdo Hotel.
Pyongyang view, taken from Yanggakdo hotel. You can find a famous satellite picture on the net showing a map of the Korean peninsula by night, with a huge difference between the north and south. In North Korea, there is no public lighting, and people use very low wattage bulbs in their houses. The North Korean capital is as surreal by night as it is by day. Due to the fuel crisis there's hardly any traffic to be heard after dark, and nightlife is virtually non-existent. Only monuments are lit during local festivities.
Every hour, on the hour, from 6 am to midnight, loudspeakers blast out a patriotic song.
Tourists are totally forbidden from leaving their hotels to walk around town, even though Pyongyang is safe, that’s the rule.
The outsides of the buildings are regularly painted and renovated, but inside, they are rather run down.
Few words from the official website of North Korean tourism:
Pyongyang, capital of DPRK is the centre of politics, the economy and culture.
It has a 5,000-year history as a capital city, since Tangun, founder king, established Ancient Korea and set Pyongyang as its capital.
The Moran Hill, the Garden of the Capital is full of flowers and the picturesque River Taedong flows through the city centre. It seems Pyongyang nestles in park.
Such surroundings make Pyongyang the World Best Beauty.
Une célèbre photo satellite qui circule sur le web montre la péninsule coréenne de nuit, avec le sud éclairé et le nord plongé dans le noir. En Corée du
Nord, il n’y a pas d’éclairage public, et les appartements sont éclairés avec le strict minimum. Seuls les bâtiments publics sont éclairés en période de
festivités. Peu de véhicules circulent en ville, et la capitale est plongée de jour comme de nuit dans un silence impressionnant. La ville résonne toutes les
heures, de 6 h du matin à minuit de chants patriotiques diffusés par des hauts parleurs.
Il est interdit aux touristes de se promener seuls sans guides en ville et de quitter leur hôtel. Pyongyang est une ville sûre, mais c’est la règle.
Les façades des immeubles sont régulièrement repeintes et rénovées, mais l'intérieur est généralement en mauvais état.
© Eric Lafforgue
Pyongyang residents enjoy a holiday dance session on a square near the Triumphal Arch in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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