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  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Pyongyang
    Arirang festival opening ceremony. Mind the videos!!!!
    The Festival is done once a year 2002-2013. In 2018 – 2024 it was done again under different names
    Arirang Mass Games - Grand Mass Gymnastics and Artistic Performance.
    It takes place at The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium Pyongyang. The stadium capacity ~ 114,000
    The festival was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records in 2007 as the largest gymnastics display ever, with 100,090 participants.
    The mosaic pictures and animations in the background are created by more than 30,000 trained school children. For early festivals, the number is said to be 294х62 (18228 of people)
    The composition consists of a background mosaic, on-field mobile decorations, on-field performance, global light effects and music. Everything is orchestrated in some magical way. See the videos!!!!
    Mosiac works like monitor pixels - people with big albums turn the page in a synchronized way.
    Mosiac works like monitor pixels - people with big albums turn the page in a synchronized way.
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Pyongyang
    Pyongyang metro.
    Central stations are very beautiful
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Pyongyang
    USS Pueblo (AGER-2) - US intelligence ship, together with 83 crew seized by Korea in 1968
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Korean Revolution Museum
    In front Korean Revolution Museum. Unfortunately no photos from inside.
    KIM IL SUNG statue. KIM JONG IL statue was added later
    Revolution is not a certain event but the fight of the people of Korea started in 1926 against Japan and continues till now
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Koryo Hotel
    My birthday. Korean comrades prepared a surprise - a perfect dinner and birthday cake at Koryo Hotel
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Pyongyang
    More photos from Pyongyang.
    See the photo related comments
    Mosaics in Pyongyang
    Mosaics in Pyongyang. Young Kim Il Sung thinking about Korea’s future
    Random people having a rest with cigarettes.
    Reading an epic The Korea Magazine Published since 1956 in Russian, Korean, English, French and Chinese. Previously, it was also published in Spanish and Arabic. The magazine publishes colorfully illustrated articles about the society, economy, culture and politics of the DPRK
    Pioneers. A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. It exists in USSR, China, Cuba, DPRK… A typical attribute – the red tie
    Arch of Triumph. It was built to commemorate the Korean resistance to Japan from 1925 to 1945
    An avenue in residential area
    Public phones near the train terminal
    Kindergarden
    Pyongyang – hot and humid in september
    Another view at Ryugyong Hotel
    For the unity of workers, farmers and intellectuals
    Busy tram station
    Everybody participates in the revolution
    Kaeson Youth Park - temporary closed for the maintenance
    City centre
    Pyongyang City view from the rooftop restaurant at Koryo Hotel
    Pyongyang City view from the rooftop restaurant at Koryo Hotel
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Hyangsan county, Myohyang Mountains
    Pohyonsa Buddhist temple of XI century. Hyangsan county, Myohyang Mountains.
    Buddhist temples are ok with Juche concept
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Myohyangsan
    Barbeque with comrades near Myohyangsan arranged by The Workers' Party of Korea
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Myohyangsan
    Museum of Gifts in Myohyangsan. Official name - International Friendship Exhibition.
    It is located in a beautiful landscape.
    Unfortunately no photos from inside
    Silver Kalashnikov
  • 2009-09-10
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    📌 Panmunjom (Kaesong town).
    Panmunjom (Kaesong town). Border with South Korea. Demilitarized zone.
    See comments for each photo
    Buildings on the border line were built for negotiators in 1953. View from North to South.
    The Peace Museum. Constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953
    We are on the North side of the table :)
    Korean Demilitarized Zone. 250 kilometers long and about 4 kilometers wide. By chance became a natural reserve
    What do South imperialists do? :)
    Panmunjom to Kaesong road with the anti-tank option
    Panmunjom to Kaesong road with the anti-tank option
    Panmunjom to Kaesong road with the anti-tank option
    Driving through Kaesong