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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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Traveled to the DPRK with the Young Pioneer Tours Chinese National Day Tour 2013.
a video of the trip
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)
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.
A ministry building on Kim Il Sun Square as seen from the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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.
The high-rise under construction is housing for faculty at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology
At the end of street the station hall of Pyongyang station is visible
DPRK, Sept. 2008 (scanned slide)
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/
A woman stands next to a propaganda poster near the entrance to the Yonggwang metro station in Pyongyang September 9, 2010. Photo by Tim Chong
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.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the first session of the first party committee meetingin Pyongyang, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) December 23, 2016. REUTERS/KCNA ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS IMAGE. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. THIS PICTURE IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS.
I think this one was this year's miss June on the PYTG.com site. Still, I love that whistle.
If you look at this one: www.flickr.com/photos/zaruka/3994562128/
I think you see the same girl for the third year in a row. Not that I mind at all. She did come over to us after her shift and smiled at us. I could not ask for a photo after we had shot so many.
View of Pyongyang from the Juche Tower. In the distance is the May Day Stadium, where the Mass Games are held.
North Korea - Pyongyang - USS Pueblo.
On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a Navy intelligence vessel, is engaged in a routine surveillance of the North Korean coast when it is intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. According to U.S. reports, the Pueblo was in international waters almost 16 miles from shore, but the North Koreans turned their guns on the lightly armed vessel and demanded its surrender. The Americans attempted to escape, and the North Koreans opened fire, wounding the commander and two others. With capture inevitable, the Americans stalled for time, destroying the classified information aboard while taking further fire. Several more crew members were wounded.
Finally, the Pueblo was boarded and taken to Wonson. There, the 83-man crew was bound and blindfolded and transported to Pyongyang, where they were charged with spying within North Korea's 12-mile territorial limit and imprisoned. It was the biggest crisis in two years of increased tension and minor skirmishes between the United States and North Korea.
The United States maintained that the Pueblo had been in international waters and demanded the release of the captive sailors. With the Tet Offensive raging 2,000 miles to the south in Vietnam, President Lyndon Johnson ordered no direct retaliation, but the United States began a military buildup in the area. North Korean authorities, meanwhile, coerced a confession and apology out of Pueblo commander Bucher, in which he stated, "I will never again be a party to any disgraceful act of aggression of this type." The rest of the crew also signed a confession under threat of torture.
The prisoners were then taken to a second compound in the countryside near Pyongyang, where they were forced to study propaganda materials and beaten for straying from the compound's strict rules. In August, the North Koreans staged a phony news conference in which the prisoners were to praise their humane treatment, but the Americans thwarted the Koreans by inserting innuendoes and sarcastic language into their statements. Some prisoners also rebelled in photo shoots by casually sticking out their middle finger; a gesture that their captors didn't understand. Later, the North Koreans caught on and beat the Americans for a week.
On December 23, 1968, exactly 11 months after the Pueblo's capture, U.S. and North Korean negotiators reached a settlement to resolve the crisis. Under the settlement's terms, the United States admitted the ship's intrusion into North Korean territory, apologized for the action, and pledged to cease any future such action. That day, the surviving 82 crewmen walked one by one across the "Bridge of No Return" at Panmunjon to freedom in South Korea. They were hailed as heroes and returned home to the United States in time for Christmas. Incidents between North Korea and the United States continued in 1969, and in April 1969 a North Korean MiG fighter shot down a U.S. Navy intelligence aircraft, killing all 31 men aboard. In 1970, quiet returned to the demilitarized zone.