Monument to the Korean Workers Party Pyongyang

... . Just outside of Pyongyang, over the Tongil Expressway, as they seem to officially call the Pyongyang – Keasong motorway, there’s this huge arched Monument to the Three Charters for National Reunification in the shape of two women dressed in ...

... sources ran around seventy thousand, it was said to have taken in as many as one hundred thousand on occasions. Whether Pyongyang and North Korea really needed two behemoths like that back-to-back was, of course, another question. But such questions ...

... Street, at the foot of both the Mansudae and the Statue. On our way there we again witnessed from the bus unhurried scenes of downtown Pyongyang, which were to me personally some of the best things to see at all. At one spot we saw a few guys in shorts ...

... and a huge mural depicting the scene of the Great Leader giving his speech to cheering masses upon his return, people of Pyongyang were dancing now in celebration of their ruling party's day. All the ladies, without exception, were in those peculiar ...

... North Korean capital ended for today. This evening we were going to stay in Kaesong, near the border with South Korea. On our way out of Pyongyang, we finally had an opportunity to pass through some suburbs off the usual tourist routes. On this by now ...

... own destiny and will get out of his life what he puts into it. We went up the Juche tower to get a panorama view of Pyongyang from 170 metres up. While we were there we could not help but notice that a construction site was blaring classical music to egg ...

...  private cars around on this wide highway where even a Jumbo jet could easily land..! Visit to the Pyongyang Film Studios, the Universal studios of  North Korea   The  Dear Leader, Kim Chong Il, has been here over 600 times, ...

... . That thing, a granite obelisk 170 m tall, with a ruby torch on top, may well be the tallest accessible structure in Pyongyang. Because the Ryugyong hotel is off-bounds to visitors. Foreigners in particular. The tower is located on the other side of the ...

... and dwarfs even the largest of the state's monuments to its two leaders and their totalitarian ideology, a true monument to North Korean hubris and folly. North Korea exists, like an alternate reality in a bad sci-fi TV series, stuck in a twisted ...

... bad, it only took about 1.5hours, and the meal i was given kept me quiet for about half of that!! we landed at pyongyang airport and after clearing immigration and customs, our group (there were eight of us, 3 canadians, a kiwi and three english ...