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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/
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Traveled to the DPRK with the Young Pioneer Tours Chinese National Day Tour 2013.
a video of the trip
In September 2016 I visited North Korea (or Democratic People's Republic of Korea as locals call it).
You can read my experience here: pahas-travel.blogspot.nl/2016/09/trip-to-north-korea.html
They arrived on the Taedong bank for repetitions of the parade. I started to take pics, and suddenly i realized that they were not hundreds, not even thousands to come down, but hundred thousands! It was a human tsunami!
North Korea 북한
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The number of cars has been steadily improving in Pyongyang. Traffic jams aren't unheard of anymore. Note the propaganda car just ahead!
This picture was taken on Sungri Street, at the intersection with Pipa street, next to the Chŏnsŭng metro station. GPS coordinates 39.0582,125.753733.
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This train seems to be a reconstructed example of the original Metro trains, officially called DK4 models (although their production code was DKJI, as in the initials of Kim Jong Il). These types were built in China by the Changchun Car Company, the maker of Beijing’s DK2 and DK3 subway cars. Since the beginning of 2002 many of these types were removed to other places and functions.
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DPRK, Sept. 2011 (scanned slide)
Taken from the train on our journey between Pyongyang and Hamhung, the vid gives an idea of the terrain running down the central spine of North Korea/DPRK. The railway weaves through some quite rugged scenery.
Hundreds of dancers forming a symbol during the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang, North Korea.
The Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance Arirang (Chosongul: 아리랑 축제, Hanja: 아리랑 祝祭) are held in the Rungrado May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Mass Games can basically be described as a synchronized socialist-realist spectacular, featuring over 100,000 participants in a 90 minute display of gymnastics, dance, acrobatics, and dramatic performance, accompanied by music and other effects, all wrapped in a highly politicized package. Students practiced every day from January onwards.
The 90 minute performance is held every evening at 7pm and features the 'largest picture in the world' a giant mosaic of individual students each holding a book whose pages links with their neighbours’ to make up one gigantic scene. When the students turn the pages the scene or individual elements of the scene change, up to 170 pages make up one book.
In August 2007, the Arirang Mass Games were recognised by Guinness World Records as the biggest event of its kind. In recent years, foreign tourists have been allowed to watch one of the many performances.
At the end of street the station hall of Pyongyang station is visible
DPRK, Sept. 2008 (scanned slide)
Since a few years ago (2012) the new Changjon Street destrict was errected at this place.
DPRK, Dec. 2003 (scanned slide)
The high-rise under construction is housing for faculty at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology
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.