Monument

A structure built to commemorate something or someone.

 

Monument to Party Founding

The Monument to the Party Founding is perhaps the most well-known monument in the DPRK. Everyone who knows anything about the DPRK has seen a picture of this monument.

The monument, as its name indicates, commemorates the founding of the Korean Worker’s Party (or KWP).

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Arch of Triumph and North Korean Hotpot

Arch of Triumph (Korean Style)

When we came out of the subway we were right next to Pyongyang’s own Arch of Triumph. Korea built it to commemorate Korea’s resistance to Japan between 1925 and 1945.

They modelled it after Paris’ own Arch of Triumph and everyone knows that this one is bigger.

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