View from Yanggakdo Casino Hotel, facing North

Pyongyang, North Korea

Roads within the capital are very much better maintained than elsewhere in the country. This road gets much worse a short distance away, once it gets out of the city.

I'm surprised they let us up here with cameras... the other view from the Juche Tower, looking away from the river. Naturally, even the crumbling office blocks are adorned with a Kim Il Sung portrait.

Pyongyang metro

Pyongyang

It's not a question of grabbing the best seat, but of squeezing on to the next packed bus at all.

Outside the subway station, many North Koreans lead fairly 'normal' lives.

The view of Pyongyang from the Juche Tower. Looking east across the residential blocks of East Pyongyang towards countryside in the distance.

Same as Pyongyang Sunrise 2 but after hitting "Enhance" in iPhoto

Entrance to the deepest subway system in the world.

Deepest subway in the world.

SONY DSC

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, DPRK.

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Pyongyang

朝鲜平壤

Pyongyang Traffic Lady.

Pyongyang, North Korea (August 2013)

Pyongyang

North Korea

March 2016

Awaiting our departure from Pyongyang, North Korea on 13/05/2013

recently renovated!

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North Korea, Nov.27, 2012