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There is only limited access to electricity in Pyongyang. Here you see a picture of the Kim Il-sung Square where the military parades taking place. In the back you see the Grand People's Study House.
Temporary traffic girls and policeman still working on the streets and crossings in Pyongyang to control the increasing traffic.
DPRK, Oct. 2015
A few steps on the platform and we were intercepted by our two guides, who wouldn't leave us until the end of the stay, except sometimes in the hotel. As you leave the train station, Pyongyang seems like an ordinary city, although quite extrordinarily clean and not very loud or busy.
K27 from Dandong (with through coaches from Beijing) after arrival at Pyongyang.
A lot of the people waiting on the platform are guides meeting foreigners off the train. All foreigners must have government guides with them at all times in North Korea and the arrangements are part of the granting of your visa. Our guides were also part of this group of greeters...
Temporary traffic girls and policeman still working on the streets and crossings in Pyongyang to control the increasing traffic.
DPRK, Oct. 2015
The diesel backing down is an M62 built in the Soviet Union and purchased second hand from the GDR (East Germany).
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the deepest, most fancy subway decoration I've ever seen...
Only had 3mins take photos inside the station, 5mins inside the train
the tour guide always says to me: "hurry up!"
Pyongyang balconies are a fascinating subject, if only because that's the only part of an ordinary Korean flat a foreigner normally gets to see.
view on the taedong river and downtown pyongyang.
in pyongyang, north korea, DPRK.
taken with hasselblad xpan, 45mm.
Known as the „Singapore Shop“ among expats for its wide range of goods imported from Southeast Asia, this shop is frequented by the new Korean elite.
One of my greatest challenges was getting a close up of one of the iconic Pyongyang traffic ladies. Most attempts had to be made from the window of a moving car.
Resident on a square next to the Monument to the Workers Party Founding in Pyongyang, North Korea September 10, 2010. Photo by Tim Chong
The monument was completed on 10 October 1995, on the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers' Party of Korea. It features bas reliefs of the North Korean people in the socialist realist style
The Ryugyong Hotel is a 105-story pyramid-shaped skyscraper under construction in Pyongyang, North Korea. Its name ("capital of willows") is also one of the historic names for Pyongyang.The building is also known as the 105 Building, a reference to its number of floors. Construction began in 1987 with planned completion in 1989.
A view of the Taedong River from the Tower of the Juche Idea, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The building in the background is the Yanggakho Hotel.
Andrew Holloway, in his highly readable account “A Year in Pyongyang”, calls this 30m high bronze trio “perfectly monstrous”–a very apt description indeed.
평양 락원영화관.
During the 11th Pyongyang International Film Festival, Pyongyang citizens had a rare chance to watch modern foreign films. The two huge posters on either side feature North Korean films: the classic "The flower girl" (꽃 파는 처녀, 1972) and the equally famous "Legacy" (유산). What really attracted the crowds on September 21st were the two foreign films on show: the Iranian feature film "The song of sparrows" and the Russian flick "First under God".