North Korea

The Communist state that lies between China and South Korea.

     

Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum

The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum is a memoir of the Korean War. It houses various war relics, captured UN vehicles and the USS Pueblo. It is an impressive museum that unfortunately contains a fair amount local propaganda.

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Grand People’s Study House

My favourite part of the our Pyongyang tour has to be the Grand People’s Study House. This impressive building houses a library of books, computer archives and music. It is open to all North Koreans for study, as the state encourages constant improvement throughout their lives.

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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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