Pyongyang photos on Flickr

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/

Pyongyang skyline by Chris Wilson

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Pyongyang Marathon 2014 by Uri Tours

How to register for Pyongyang Marathon 2015: uritours.com/blog/entry/how-to-register-for-the-pyongyang...

Pyongyang Metro Mural by Raymond Cunningham

Pyongyang Metro Station by Reuben Teo

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For more about my North Korea trip: bit.ly/1x7gSoR

Pyongyang Traffic Controller - Winter by PyongyangTrafficGirls

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Pyongyang Traffic Girl, dressed for the winter cold. Cropped from an original photo taken by jhen6550 on Flickr

DSC05556 Pyongyang streets -- this is a shorter than usual bus queue, as spectators leave a May Day carnival 3k by Recliner

Pyongyang Metro Mural by Raymond Cunningham

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PYONGYANG by EL Generalissimo

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平壌。主体思想塔。茶色の古いベンツがかっこいい。

Pyongyang, Pyongyang Province. by Cale McMillen

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Pyongyang - North Korea by gigema

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Historical Relics in Pyongyang

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north korea - arirang or mass games 2011 by Retlaw Snellac Photography

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Arirang Festival mass games display in Pyongyang on Republic Foundation Day 9 september 2011.

The Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance Arirang are held in the Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. The two-month gymnastics and artistic festival celebrates the birthday of Kim Il-sung (15 April).

The festival has been held from August until October since 2002-2005, and 2007 until the present.

The Mass Games possess an important ideological character praising the Workers Party of North Korea, its armed forces, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. These messages may not be clear to foreign spectators who are not aware of North Korean iconography: a rising sun symbolizes Kim Il Sung. When a gun is shown, it signifies the gun which Kim Il Sung gave to his son Kim Jong Il. The color red, particularly in flowers, stands for the working class. And the color purple and purple flowers represent Kim Il Sung (as the flower 'Kimilsungia is a purple orchid and the flower 'Kimjongilia' is a red begonia). A snowy mountain with a lake represents Mount Paektu where Kim Jong Il is said to have been born in a log cabin.

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 by Hotel Kaesong