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The diesel backing down is an M62 built in the Soviet Union and purchased second hand from the GDR (East Germany).
He's in charge of giving the driver the Go to leave the station. We are far from the Tokyo rush!
Pyongyang subway. Deep, very deep:120 meters below the surface! Two lines, old wagons in a DDR style.
All the 17 stations have names like Triumphant Return, Reunification, Paradise, Glory...i do not know how people reminds the names!
>the official speech:
The Pyongyang Metro was opened to traffic in September 1973.
The metro has a greater transport capacity than other means of passenger traffic and gets a large share in guaranteeing the smoothness of traffic in the city of Pyongyang.
It fans out in all directions of the city and every citizen has easy access to its service. In constructing the metro, considerable thought was given to the prospect of the city’s development. It links districts with each other and the city centre with the suburbs.
The stations are within easy reach of squares, parks, stadiums and pleasure grounds and bus and trolley bus stops in the city.
Each station is equipped with escalators.
The high ceilinged stations are well-ventilated and this makes the passengers feel refreshed.
Each station offers an individual architectural style.
>End of the official speech
Pyongyang North Korea
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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...
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.
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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 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!"
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.
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.
In Korea, poverty hides behind walls, and power hides behind walls – in the North as well as in the South.
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.
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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".
At this tme of the year september, you can see many people working on spices in front of the buildings. They then make them dry in front of the windows.
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Andrew Holloway, in his highly readable account “A Year in Pyongyang”, calls this 30m high bronze trio “perfectly monstrous”–a very apt description indeed.
The Triumphal Arch (1882) in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commemorates the struggle against Japan. The triangular shape in the background is the Ryugyong Hotel.
outside of Pyongyang children's palace,
story at the same place from 5 years ago:
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El metro de Pyongyang es el que discurre a más profundidad del mundo (110 metros). Las dos paradas que visitamos fueron la de Puhŭng (Rehabilitación) y Yŏnggwang (Gloria). Cabe destacar que los nombres de las estaciones se vinculan con el proyecto político del socialismo Juche y nada tienen que ver con el contexto geográfico, como ocurre en la gran mayoria de los sistemas de Metro del mundo.
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