Chollima Statue, Pyongyang
This is a statue of a chollima, a mythical Korean animal akin to a pegasus. It is said to be able to run 1,000 ri (400 km) in a day. The North Koreans built this in 1961 to commemorate the heroic efforts of steel factory workers who, after the Korean War, increased output much faster than factory bosses said was even possible.
Chollima Statue Mythical Symbol of Korea
There is a mythical creature in Korean legend named the Chollima, which roughly translates as 'thousand-mile horse'. It's a winged beast -- a Korean Pegasus -- strong, swift and elegant. The Chollima is used as a symbol in North Korea to represent strength, heroism and fighting spirit. A 150-foot-tall statue of the Chollima stands over the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
[DPRK Attraction] Chollima Statue
NORTH KOREA amazing Talent & the Symbols of Pyongyang (Pt.9)
All video by ADEYTO copyright 2013.
There are no traffic lights in Pyongyang. The intersections are instead guarded by traffic officers - who usually come in the shape of a woman with robotic movements.
The Tower of the Juche Idea which is all of 150 m tall, is surmounted by a torch (another 20 m high), and is surrounded by about seven group sculptures signifying the progress of communism. 70 steps- the number of years Kim Il-Sung had lived till the building of the monument- lead up to the tower, and it is covered with 25,500 granite tiles- the number of days he had lived.
A North Korean equivalent of Paris's famous monument, the Arch of Triumph, like the Tower of the Juche Idea, was also constructed in 1982, on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Kim Il-Sung. The Arch marks Kim Il-Sung's `victory' over the anti-communist forces and is in commemoration of the leader's return to Pyongyang after rescuing the Fatherland from foreign forces. The Arch is made totally of granite- more than 15,000 individual pieces- and towers to a height of 60 m, the biggest victory arch in the world. .
Mansu Hill stands in the centre of Pyongyang, and has two of Pyongyang's important tourist sights: the Chollima Statue, an imposing bronze statue of a winged horse- a Pegasus- representing the progressive spirit of North Korea, and the Grand Monument. The latter includes a bronze statue of Kim Il-Sung that is much revered by the local populace. Round about are more monuments and museums, including the Korean Revolution Museum, all of them dedicated to the Communist regime in the DPRK, and the glorification of Kim Il-Sung.
Monument to the Korean Workers Party: along with the traditional Communist hammer and sickle there is also a brush which is used for writing. The brush shows the importance of education to the Korean people. This is a unique monument that can only be seen in the DPRK.
Kim Il-sung Square is the nominal center of Pyongyang and serves as a gathering site for parades and other national events. There's a great view of Juche Tower from the Square as well as as the government building that surround the square.
[DPRK Sport] May Day Celebrated in the DPRK
Senior party and state officials significantly enjoyed May Day together with working people across the country.
Pak Pong Ju, Kim Ki Nam and other senior party and state officials, vice-premiers of the Cabinet, officials of the party and power bodies went to the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, the State Academy of Sciences, the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill, the Chongsan Co-op Farm in Kangso District, the Chollima Steel Complex, the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill, the Migok Cooperative Farm in Sariwon City and other institutions, industrial establishments and farms to congratulate workers, agricultural workers and intellectuals on May Day.
They laid floral baskets and bouquets before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and portraits of the smiling great leaders and mosaics depicting them before paying tribute to them.
Going round the revolutionary museums, rooms dedicated to the history of the relevant units and other places, they felt once again the undying exploits of the peerlessly great men who turned the country into an invincible power.
The senior Party and state officials and other officials across the country met with innovators creating labor feats and encouraged their successes, listening to their stories about the great upsurge and great innovations on the fronts for building a socialist power.
Together with the working people they conducted colorful sports and amusement games such as tug-of-war and enjoyed art performances.
They called upon all the working people to faithfully uphold the leadership of respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and achieve a series of successes with the might of self-reliance and self-development and glorify the Conference of Mallima Frontrunners as the one of victors.
chollima Street in Pyongyang DPRK 平壌 千里馬通り
2018,4,28
Walking down Chilsongmun Street in Pyongyang, North Korea
As part of our city tour, we walked from Mansudae Grand Monument to the Arch of Triumph. The monument in the beginning is the Chollima Statue.
Chollima Tractor Usage in North Korea
The 25 h.p. Chollima tractor dates from the 1940s era but is still widely used in North Korea. It can be seen that it is quite effective at shallow ploughing but it has a high fuel consumption compared to modern tractors.
[DPRK Atraction] Military Attaches Corps Visit Youth Movement Museum
The military attaches corps Thursday visited the Youth Movement Museum ahead of the 56th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of the Songun revolutionary leadership.
The guests laid a bouquet before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il standing among youth and children at the main lobby and paid tribute to them.
They looked round photos and historic mementoes dealing with the exploits performed by the peerlessly great persons of Mt. Paektu for developing the Juche-oriented youth movement and data on the proud history of the young people who have followed the Party with loyalty.
They toured the Mirim Riding Club and the Mirim Air Club on Friday.
Kim Il Sung Statue, Pyongyang
The Mansudae Grand Monument is a 20-meter tall statue of Kim Il Sung erected in 1972. For a time it was covered in gold. The statue is flanked by two red granite flags and bronze sculptures. One depicts the anti-Japanese struggle from 1905 until 1945. The other depicts the victory in the Korean War.
Mansu Hill Grand Monument (Wanderer's North Korea tour, Part 11)
From the park we went to the mansudae grand hill monument, the two enormous bronze statues situated on the highest point of Pyongyang. Here is a sacred place for locals.
We saw many dressed In their finest clothes ready to go up and pay respect to the two former leaders. We would also be made to go up and do so.
At the bottom, we had the opportunity to place flowers. We were made to show utmost respect. On walking to the top, we were made to line up and bow towards the statues in a line.
When taking pictures afterwards, we were instructed not to cut any limb or part of the leader out of the portrait.
New Year celebrations in Kim Il Sung Square, street scenes
SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Chollima street
2. Wide of the bronze statue of Kim Il Sung, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's father and the country's founder, on Mansu Hill
3. Flowers sent by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il
4. Wide of people visiting the bronze statue of former North Korean leader, Kim Il Sung
5. Mid of people placing bunches of flowers near statue
6. Mid of women approaching the statue of Kim Il Sung with bunches of flowers
7. Baskets of flowers
8. Wide of statue of Kim Il Sung
9. Cars and buses
10. Pan of children playing games in Kim Il Sung Square
11. Building with picture of Kim Il Sung, the North Korean national flag and the party flag
12. School children singing
13. School children singing and dancing around a snowman
14. Pan of children in national costumes singing and playing
15. Children playing
16. Poster of Kim Song Ju Primary School
17. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Kang Il Sim, a pupil at Changgwang Middle School No.1:
We gathered here in Kim Il Sung Square to play games to celebrate New Year's Day. We are very interested in kite flying, skipping, top spinning and shuttlecock.
18. Boy playing shuttlecock
19. Various of boys flying kites
20. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Yang Chang Hyok, secretary of the Central District committee, Pyongyang City, the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League:
Now, children play games here in Kim Il Sung Square, as in the past, to greet New Year's Day. We will organise activities in the future, too, different colourful works, in a bid to let the young people know of the superiority of the nation.
21. Schoolgirls playing the Kayagum (North Korean traditional musical instrument)
22. Schoolgirls dancing
23. Children playing games in Kim Il Sung Square
24. Wide of Sochang Street
25. Mid of a traffic officer on duty
26. Various of people walking in street
STORYLINE:
North Koreans marked New Year's Day on Sunday with many citizens of Pyongyang laying flowers near the bronze statue of former leader Kim Il Sung, known as the eternal president of North Korea.
The new year celebrations came as North Korea marked the 65th birthday of leader Kim Jong Il on Friday.
Kim's birthday is one of North Korea's most important national holidays and one in which the personality cult inherited from his father, the country's founder Kim Il Sung, is arguably the most visible.
To mark New Year's Day North Koreans eat traditional Korean food and play traditional games in the streets.
APTN North Korea filmed children in Kim Il Sung Square on Sunday as they sang, danced and played traditional musical instruments, known as the Kayagum.
Kang Il Sim, a pupil at Changgwang Middle School No.1 said: ''We gathered here in Kim Il Sung Square to play games to celebrate New Year's Day. We are very interested in kite flying, skipping, top spinning and shuttlecock.
As on other major celebration days in Pyongyang, North Koreans also visited a giant statue of Kim Il Sung to lay flowers, bow in respect and salute in the cold morning air.
Kim Il Sung is known in North Korea as the eternal president and people often refer to the present leader as General Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il took over the communist regime, after his father Kim Il Sung died in 1994, in the world's first dynastic succession in a socialist state.
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North Korean Farms (May 2014)
Some farms I saw around North Korea in May 2014, during planting season.
???? Visit to the Strange Land of North Korea (DPRK)
This is a film about a traveller in the strange land called North Korea or officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Tours to the DPRK are tightly scheduled and normally include a visit to the demilitarised zone, museums and statues to Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, Pyongyang’s amusements parks, chandelier-laden metro system and showcase entertainment facilities such as the Circus and the SchoolChildren's Palace. In addition to these, I took a flightseeing flight on a Mi-17 helicopter over the DPRK's capital city of Pyongyang. As well, as my tour was an extended one, it also went the northeast of the DPRK to the tri-country area around the Rason Special Economic Zone where the DPRK, China and Russia conjoin.
The cult of the Kims is perhaps the most extraordinary feature of the DPRK. Images or statues of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il are found everywhere. These graven images are effectively worshipped. This film shows scenes of the veneration of the Kims (Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il) that were witnessed.
The government guides control both what you can see and also what you can take photographs of. If you take a photograph of the military, construction or something that they feel does not portray the DPRK in a positive light then they force you to delete the photograph. On exiting the country, the border guards also reviewed photographs to see if they conformed to the aforementioned standards. Despite these restrictions, this film contains images that accurately portray the state of the country as I saw it.
--- Table of Contents ---
00:08 Overview of trip to North Korea (DPRK)
00:52 Beijing International Airport
01:40 Air Koryo to Pyongyang
02:31 US Navy visits the DPRK too
02:49 Pyongyang International Airport
03:13 Traffic policewoman directing traffic
04:09 Map of Pyongyang
04:19 pollution in Pyongyang
05:50 Chollima (mythical flying horse)
06:07 Arch of Triumph
07:04 Traffic policewoman in traffic
08:01 trolley bus ride
09:14 Pyongyang Metro System
11:56 Yanggakdo Hotel
13:19 6AM city wakeup call for Pyongyang
14:12 stockpiling gravel for construction
15:17 women encouraging hard work
16:07 Monument to Party Founding
16:39 Victorious War Museum (Korean War)
21:22 May Day in Moran Hill Park
21:53 Kaeson Youth Park
22:25 Mangyongdae Funfair
24:04 propaganda in Pyongyang
24:35 Mangyongdae Children's Palace
27:09 helicopter fightseeing over Pyongyang
30:07 Pyongyang Circus Theatre
32:43 Juche Tower
33:30 Kim Il Sung Square
34:20 Grand People's Study House
35:10 traffic policewoman
35:58 Jang Chon Model Cooperative Farm
37:29 luxury department store
37:58 peasants ploughing with oxen
39:22 Veneration of the giant Kim statues
43:18 Pyongyang at night
45:10 Mirae (Future) Scientists Street
45:48 Science and Technology Centre
47:14 View out over Pyongyang
48:05 Reunification Highway to Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
49:59 Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
52:39 Kaesong
59:00 Tomb of King Kongmin
1:01:10 Sokdamgugok (Sokdam Ravine)
1:01:40 Haeju
1:03:30 Suyangsan Falls
1:04:04 Sariwon
1:06:50 Mt. Jongbang
1:08:33 village visit
1:09:37 model pig farm
1:11:00 Mt. Kuwol
1:09:42 Sinchon Massacre Museum
1:11:39 Nampo
1:12:40 West Sea Barrage
1:15:32 Arch of Reunification
1:15:48 north to Myohyangsan (International Friendship Exhibition)
1:17:40 Myohyangsan
1:18:06 International Friendship Exhibition
1:19:42 Pohyon-sa Korean Buddhist temple
1:21:01 Flying to Rason Special Economic Zone
1:21:22 Ilyushin IL-18 (1968) to Orang
1:22:15 Yombun Revolutionary Site
1:23:12 mushroom farm
1:24:32 Chongjin Russian War Cemetary
1:24:41 Chongjin - veneration of giant Kim statues
1:26:09 Chongjin - school visits
1:27:43 Rason area
1:29:29 Pipha Island
1:29:50 shellfish diver
1:30:23 Rajin garment factory
1:30:56 Port of Rajin
1:31:48 Tri-country region (DPRK-China-Russia)
1:32:27 train to Russia via the Friendship Bridge
1:33:36 Conclusions
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Estátuas dos Grandes Líderes em Pyongyang. Great Leaders statues, Pyongyang.
Com certeza uma das atrações mais aguardadas em Pyongyang é a visita as grandes estátuas dos líderes no centro da cidade. Um belo exemplo da opulência e ostentação de toneladas e toneladas de bronze cercadas por diversos buquês de flores que centenas de coreanos vem depositar todos os dias.
Perdão pelo tremilique e baixa qualidade da filmagem, mas é que não era permitido realizar vídeos no local e eu tive que fingir que estava filmando...
HISTORICAL PLACES OF NORTH KOREA IN GOOGLE EARTH
HISTORICAL PLACES OF NORTH KOREA
1. REVOLUTIONARY SPIRIT OF BAEKDU 39° 1'13.48N 125°45'17.00E
2. AGRICULTURE PROVINCE 39° 1'15.39N 125°45'10.91E
3. KYONGRIM-DONG 39° 1'4.19N 125°45'13.70E
4. GRAND PEOPLE'S STUDY HOUSE 39° 1'5.36N 125°45'7.71E
5. KIM II-SUNG SQUARE,PYONGYANG 39° 1'11.52N 125°45'4.42E
6. PYONGYANG CENTER 39° 1'13.57N 125°44'56.84E
7. LAKE CHON 42° 0'21.36N 128° 3'18.84E
8. ARCH OF TRIUMPH,PYONGYANG 39° 2'40.97N 125°45'11.98E
9. KIM II SUNG'S MONUMENT,KAESONG 37°58'36.05N 126°33'31.49E
10. PHENIAN MONUMENT,PYONGYANG 39° 1'40.13N 125°46'36.17E
11. CHONGRUNG TEMPLE&TOMB OF KING TONGMYONG 38°53'38.38N 125°55'23.29E
12. TAEDONGMUN,PYONGYANG 39° 1'21.37N 125°45'24.31E
13. KWANGBOP TEMPLE,PYONGYANG 39° 5'29.63N 125°49'36.02E
14. GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM II-SUNG 39° 1'24.40N 125°45'8.70E
15. TOMB OF KORYO KING KONGMIN,KAESONG 37°58'55.73N 126°28'24.17E
16. CHOLLIMA STATUE,PYONGYANG 39° 2'3.72N 125°45'10.22E
17. KIM II-SUNG STATUE 39°50'41.68N 127°37'20.01E
18. KUMSUSAN MEMORIAL PALACE,PYONGYANG 39° 3'50.86N 125°47'15.90E
19. IMMORTAL TOWER,PYONGYANG 39° 3'30.92N 125°45'17.37E
20. THE JUCHE TOWER,PYONGYANG 39° 1'3.36N 125°45'50.25E
21. PYONGYANG ARENA 39° 2'24.24N 125°44'6.63E
22. KIM II-SUNG'S BIRTHPLACE,PYONGYANG 38°59'29.40N 125°39'30.48E
23. PROPOGANDA MOSAIC,MORANBONG 39° 2'44.88N 125°45'20.29E
24. MISSILE LAUCHER,NORTH HAMGYONG 40°51'20.70N 129°39'57.01E
25. PYONGYANG ICE RINK 39° 1'22.59N 125°43'52.62E
26. PYONGYANG MANSUDAE CHAMBER 39° 1'43.37N 125°44'57.70E
27. MONUMENT,SAEDONG 38°57'51.75N 125°42'56.52E
O general Kim Jong Il está montando um cavalo branco
Título coreano: 장군님 백마 라고 달리 진다
Título japonês: 将軍 様 が 白馬 に 乗 っ て 走 る
Ano de criação: 1995
Interpretado pela Banda Wangjaesan
North Koreans welcome in the NY
(26 Jan 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Chollima street, central Pyongyang
2. Wide of new year decorations and North Korean flags
3. Mid of the North Korean flags
4. Wide of the people walking up Mansu Hill, central Pyongyang
5. Wide of people going to the bronze statue of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung
6. Mid of wreath sent by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to place at foot of Kim Il Sung statue
7. Various of people carrying flower bouquets to lay at foot of Kim Il Sung statue
8. People laying flowers at foot of Kim Il Sung statue
9. Wide of people bowing to statue
10. Wide of Kim Il Sung statue
11. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Pak Guk Song, Pyongyang citizen, Vox Pop:
It is our job for this year to bring miracles and innovations, with a new revolutionary upsurge. It's significant that we're full of confidence on this new year's day. We're sure we can do what it takes to make a prosperous and powerful nation. We will rely on our inexhaustible spiritual strength, even though we have to face difficulties and ordeals.
12. Various of buildings under construction in Mansudae street, central Pyongyang
13. Wide of street with Ryugyong Hotel under construction in background
14. Wide of people in street
15. Wide of people buying peanuts at street booth
16. Mid of signboard of booth selling peanuts
17. Father and his child buying peanuts
18. Wide of building with North Korean national flag
19. Various of people in street
STORYLINE
North Koreans were celebrating the Lunar New Year on Monday by paying tribute to late national founder Kim Il Sung.
APTN North Korea filmed a stream of people in the capital, Pyongyang, offering flowers and holding a moment of silence in front of a huge statue of the late leader and father of current leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim Il Sung ruled North Korea until his death in 1994 and the state still accords him the title of eternal president.
The Lunar New Year is a traditional holiday celebrated in both Koreas.
North Koreans traditionally go out to visit the homes of older family members, eat special treats and play folk games like kite-flying, rope jumping and Korean chess.
North Korea is pursuing a development programme aimed at improving its situation by 2012, which will be the 100th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birthday.
Since the start of the calendar year 2009, North Korea's government has repeated slogans exhorting its citizens to work hard to achieve the aim of prosperous and powerful nation by 2012.
Large areas of the capital underwent renovation during the past months towards the 2012 goal.
Roads were resurfaced and apartment blocks renovated and in some cases, rebuilt.
Construction also restarted at the giant Ryugyong Hotel which looms over downtown Pyongyang.
The project first began in the late 1980s, but stalled in the early 1990s.
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Koreans pay tribute to Kim Jong-il | North Korea | 김정일
People in DPRK Pay Tribute to Kim Jong Il | North Korea | 김정일
December 17, 2014
***16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011***
North Korea staged a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the third anniversary of the death of its former leader Kim Jong-il, who is officially revered as the founder of the nation in North Korea.
Trains, ships and cars sounded their horns and masses of North Koreans fell silent for three minutes as they bowed toward the mausoleum in Pyongyang where Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, lies in state.
Crowds laid flowers below statues and portraits of Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011, and his father Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994.
(Kim Jong-il; 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011 was the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as North Korea, from 1994 to 2011. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK, Kim Il-sung, following the elder Kim's death in 1994. Kim Jong-il was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world).
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Kim Jong Il's Feats for Turning DPRK into Economic Giant:
The third anniversary of demise of leader Kim Jong Il (December 17), the people in the DPRK recollect with deep emotion the great feats he had performed for turning the country into an economic giant.
Kim Jong Il laid down the Juche-based economic construction line of simultaneously developing the light industry and agriculture while giving priority to the development of defence industry.
And he clearly indicated the orientation and ways for building an economic power, which suggested rapidly developing electricity, coal and metal industries and railway transport, doing double-cropping on a large scale, updating light industrial factories and paying preferential efforts to the production of basic consumer goods.
In June Juche 85 (1996) when giving field guidance to the Anbyon Youth Power Station near to completion, he praised the soldier-builders for having unfailingly carried out their supreme commander's order under the very difficult conditions. And he called their indomitable fighting traits the revolutionary soldier spirit, urging all the people to follow it.
Consequently, the spirit of Kanggye was created and a big production upsurge witnessed at the Songjin Steel Complex and the Ranam Coal-mining Machine Complex, bringing about an epochal turn in the building of an economic power.
Such signal achievements were made in the country as successful launch of earth satellites, large-scale land improvement, completion of Kaechon-Lake Thaesong and Paekma-Cholsan waterways and construction of many minor hydraulic power stations.
With a view to greeting the year 2012, the birth centenary of President Kim Il Sung, with eye-catching economic successes, Kim Jong Il visited the Chollima Steel Complex on Dec. 24, 2008 to kindle a torch of fresh revolutionary upsurge in the economic field.
Thanks to his ardent patriotism, energetic field guidance and devoted efforts, the DPRK grew stronger in national power. And the country could witness the establishment of Juche-based production systems of iron, fertilizer and vinalon President Kim Il Sung desired so much and greet a history of industrial revolution in the new century through a drive of breaking through the cutting edge.
His plan for building an economic power is now creditably carried into practice by supreme leader Kim Jong Un.
Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA)