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  • 2009-09-10
    🏷️ #dprk2009
    📌 Pyongyang
    Pyongyang Hotels.
    Koryo Hotel. Revolver bar on the 44th floor.
    Ryugyong Hotel. 330 meters. Almost finished.
    Koryo Hotel
    Koryo Hotel
    In Koryo Hotel revolver bar
    Ryugyong Hotel
  • 2009-09-10
    🏷️ #dprk2009
    📌 Pyongyang.
    Juche monument day and night.
    Juche is korean “localization” of Marxism.
    The monument is very numerologistic.
    The number of stones, sections and dimensions matters
  • 2009-09-10
    🏷️ #dprk2009
    📌 Pyongyang
    “To sisters” arc in Pyongyang. According to the late news it was dismantled. Till 2024 DPRK declared the goal of Korean reunion. Not the case anymore.
  • 2009-09-10
    🏷️ #dprk2009
    📌 Pyongyang
    Pyongyang – city view.
    There was a high humidity in September.
    The city is all-new – it was destroyed by bombing during the Korena war 1950.
    It is said the number of bombs was equal to the number of townspeople
  • 2009-09-10
    🏷️ #dprk2009
    📌 Pyongyang
    Pyongyang – the capital (population 3,5 * 10^6).
    International airport and local train station.
    International airport
    Local train station.
  • 2009-09-10
    🏷️ #dprk2009
    📌 North Korea
    Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
    1910 – annexed by Japan
    1945 – as the result of WW2 devided on two zones (38°): Soviet and US
    1948 – national goverments were formed
    1950 – Korean War (1,3 mln killed or injured, 80% of houses destroyed)
    1953 – agreement on cesefire and DMZ (formaly they are in war till now)
    2006 – sanctions because of nuclear weapon tests
    Socialist republic, Planned economy
    Ideology: Juche – “localization” of Marxism
    One party (de facto) - The Workers' Party of Korea
    1948 KIM IL SUNG => 1994 => KIM JONG IL => 2011 => KIM JONG UN