Drive down unknown street leaving Mangyongdae Kim Il-sung's Birthplace. Pyongyang, North Korea
Drive down unknown street leaving Mangyongdae Kim Il-sung's Birthplace. Pyongyang, North Korea
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Show in Mangyongdae Children's Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea.
In September 2016 we visited North Korea. Part of the tour is a show in the Mangyongdae Children's Palace where students display their skills in a well crafted show.
North Korea reveals its home made trams
(19 Feb 2019) LEADIN:
Pyongyang is updating its aging public transport network, with new trams and trolleybuses.
With optimism about the future between north and south, the new tram is being called Tongil which means unification in Korean.
STORYLINE:
North Korea's state media trumpeted the arrival of its new tram on the streets as a triumph of local industry.
Test runs of the new tram actually began last August, but the new vehicle is only now being introduced to the streets.
Since liberation from the Japanese in 1945, almost all of the country's existing tram fleet has been imported from the former Czechoslovakia or the new Czech Republic.
The first post-liberation tram lines in Pyongyang didn't start until 1991. The current trolley bus system started much earlier, in 1961.
The trams have to run down rails, but the trolley buses use wheels without the need for rails. Both get their power from overhead electric cables, and don't belch fumes.
The age of some of Pyongyang's public transport is proudly displayed on the sides of trams and trolley buses.
Red stars represent each stretch of 50,000 kilometres they have completed without any accidents.
Some of the vehicles have more than ten stars, claiming hundreds of thousands of kilometres travelled.
The three new trams so far run on just one route, from Mangyongdae in the western suburbs of Pyongyang, to the main railway station in the centre of the city.
According to public transport officials the vehicles are the trusted workhorses of the capital.
Journeys average 21 kilometre each way, on an average day they'll do the route six times, meaning they travel approximately 250 kilometres per day.
If the tram operates at least 25 days a month, that adds up to about 75,000 kilometres a year.
So the number of trams whose paintwork is covered with stars isn't so surprising, given that they date back to 1991.
Ri Jae Hong, a representative of the Capital Public Transportation Bureau says: The reason why trams and trolley buses are popular is first of all because they are good for the city environment. All around the world there's a lot of pollution, spoiling the environment, but trams and trolley buses don't burn fuel, they're good for the environment. The second point is that they can carry a lot of passengers. And the third thing is that keep the city stable – a lot of traffic can cause confusion, but trams and trolleybuses follow designated routes and travel at a stable speed, so this all contributes to traffic safety.
Public transport like trams, trolley buses and the subways are still heavily subsidised in North Korea, with a one-way ticket for any length of journey along the route costing a maximum of five North Korean Won.
With official exchanges putting 100 North Korean Won to 1 USD dollar, that journey would cost about five US cents.
In reality the real exchange rate is more like 8,000 North Korean Won to 1 US dollar.
Passengers buy tickets from shops before they travel, and put them in collection boxes on the trams, or trolley bus.
The Pyongyang subway has a separate card system.
The new trams are being used for domestic promotion, to show how North Korea can manufacture modern and useful machines by itself.
Kim Won Mi is a passenger on the new tram.
Whenever I saw the new tram on the street, I thought it looked very good, and now that I'm using it, it is really nice. If there are more new trams on the streets, Pyongyang will look better, she says.
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Mangyongdae District Schoolchildren's Hall in Pyongyang
Teachers at the Mangyongdae District Schoolchildren's Hall in Pyongyang strive to improve the quality of education.
Foreign Campers Visit Mangyongdae
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Campers from other countries who came to participate in the 28th Songdowon International Children's Camping visited Mangyongdae, the birthplace of President Kim Il Sung, on Friday.
Visiting the old home in Mangyongdae where Kim Il Sung was born and spent his childhood, nurturing the noble will for revolution, they went round with keen interest historic relics preserved there with great care.
They also looked round revolutionary sites on Mangyong Hill.
Alexei Morozov, head of the Russian campers group (Khabarovsk), said:
Mangyongdae is a holy land where the great sun rose. Kim Il Sung was born at the low-roofed thatched house and grew up, receiving revolutionary education from his parents.
He liberated the country and made a great contribution to accomplishing the socialist cause.
His feats will shine forever.
KCNA (Foreigners Visit Mangyongdae)
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Visiting Mangyongdae, 'Native Home of Kim il sung during our tour in North Korea!
Visiting Mangyongdae, 'Native Home of Kim il sung during our tour in North Korea! May Day Tour. Uri tours
DPRK Players Return Home
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North Korea reveals its home made trams
(19 Feb 2019) LEADIN:
Pyongyang is updating its aging public transport network, with new trams and trolleybuses.
With optimism about the future between north and south, the new tram is being called Tongil which means unification in Korean.
STORYLINE:
North Korea's state media trumpeted the arrival of its new tram on the streets as a triumph of local industry.
Test runs of the new tram actually began last August, but the new vehicle is only now being introduced to the streets.
Since liberation from the Japanese in 1945, almost all of the country's existing tram fleet has been imported from the former Czechoslovakia or the new Czech Republic.
The first post-liberation tram lines in Pyongyang didn't start until 1991. The current trolley bus system started much earlier, in 1961.
The trams have to run down rails, but the trolley buses use wheels without the need for rails. Both get their power from overhead electric cables, and don't belch fumes.
The age of some of Pyongyang's public transport is proudly displayed on the sides of trams and trolley buses.
Red stars represent each stretch of 50,000 kilometres they have completed without any accidents.
Some of the vehicles have more than ten stars, claiming hundreds of thousands of kilometres travelled.
The three new trams so far run on just one route, from Mangyongdae in the western suburbs of Pyongyang, to the main railway station in the centre of the city.
According to public transport officials the vehicles are the trusted workhorses of the capital.
Journeys average 21 kilometre each way, on an average day they'll do the route six times, meaning they travel approximately 250 kilometres per day.
If the tram operates at least 25 days a month, that adds up to about 75,000 kilometres a year.
So the number of trams whose paintwork is covered with stars isn't so surprising, given that they date back to 1991.
Ri Jae Hong, a representative of the Capital Public Transportation Bureau says: The reason why trams and trolley buses are popular is first of all because they are good for the city environment. All around the world there's a lot of pollution, spoiling the environment, but trams and trolley buses don't burn fuel, they're good for the environment. The second point is that they can carry a lot of passengers. And the third thing is that keep the city stable – a lot of traffic can cause confusion, but trams and trolleybuses follow designated routes and travel at a stable speed, so this all contributes to traffic safety.
Public transport like trams, trolley buses and the subways are still heavily subsidised in North Korea, with a one-way ticket for any length of journey along the route costing a maximum of five North Korean Won.
With official exchanges putting 100 North Korean Won to 1 USD dollar, that journey would cost about five US cents.
In reality the real exchange rate is more like 8,000 North Korean Won to 1 US dollar.
Passengers buy tickets from shops before they travel, and put them in collection boxes on the trams, or trolley bus.
The Pyongyang subway has a separate card system.
The new trams are being used for domestic promotion, to show how North Korea can manufacture modern and useful machines by itself.
Kim Won Mi is a passenger on the new tram.
Whenever I saw the new tram on the street, I thought it looked very good, and now that I'm using it, it is really nice. If there are more new trams on the streets, Pyongyang will look better, she says.
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A Tour of North Korean Architecture in Pyongyang
The architecture of Pyongyang is one of the DPRK's highlights.
In any socialist regime, architecture plays a key part in the process of building up a new social and political environment following revolutionary events. The total destruction of Pyongyang during the Korean War gave Korean architects and construction workers a clean slate from which to build a perfect socialist capital anew, and they seized upon that opportunity with relish.
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Buildings and monuments featured in this video:
Juche Tower
Monument to Reunification
Ice Rink
Mansudae Grand Monument and Korean Revolution Museum
War Victory Monument
Ministry of Agriculture
Mansudae Art Theatre
Grand People's Study House/Kim Il Sung Square/Korean History Museum
Grand People's Study House (Lecture Hall)
Worker, Farmer and Intellectual Monument (in front of Juche Tower)
Samjiyon Grand Monument
War Victory Monuments/Ryugyong Hotel
Monument to Party Foundation
Pyongyang Railway Station
Ryugyong Hotel
Koryo Hotel (diagram)
May Day Stadium (diagram)
Arch of Triumph
Koryo Hotel
Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace
Assembly Hall (interior)
Grand People's Study House (interior -- central hall)
Explore North Korea PART 2 Kim Il Sung's former residence 北朝鮮探秘 2 萬景台-金日成故居
萬景台，位於平壤西南約12公里的大同江畔，是已故北朝鮮領袖金日成的出生地，金日成也在這裡度過了他的童年時代。
朝鮮革命勝利後，故居成了朝鮮人民心目中的聖地，同時也是平壤的一個著名的旅遊景點。
萬景台地理位置依山面水，著名的大同江緩緩流過，山水交融，景色秀麗，可謂是“萬景交輝”，萬景台故而得名。正因為如此，歷史上平壤富人死後紛紛安葬在這裡。
金日成的曾祖父在100多年前就來到這裡定居，直到金日成一家四代人都在這裡生活。他的曾祖父、祖父、父親世代沿襲著守墓人的生涯，過著貧困的生活。
朝鮮革命勝利後，除了金日成故居的茅草屋、小小的庭院和水井被完好地保存外，原先這裡的富人墓全部被遷往別處。取而代之的是在故居的四周種植了大片的樹木和草坪，使故居坐落在鬱鬱蔥蔥的綠野中，顯得莊嚴而又充滿詩意。簡陋的茅屋、低矮的籬笆和小小的庭院，如今已經成為朝鮮對年輕人進行革命傳統教育的最好課堂。
Pyongyang Rest Home for War Veterans(English Subtitled)
On Feb. 8, 1948, Korean People's Army was founded.
Participants in Pyongyang Int'l Pro-Wrestling Contest Visit Mangyongdae
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Kanji Inoki, member of the House of Councilors of Japan who is also chief director of the Sports Peace Community Association of Japan and co-chairman of the organizing committee of the Pyongyang International Pro-Wrestling Contest, and his party and players of different countries Friday visited Mangyongdae, the birthplace of President Kim Il Sung.
Being briefed on the immortal story about the old home in Mangyongdae where the President was born, they looked round the historic relics preserved at the old home.
They also toured various gymnasiums of the sports village in Chongchun Street.
They paid tribute to the mosaic depicting President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il coming out to the venue of the inaugural ceremony of Chongchun Street and were briefed on the monument to their revolutionary activities.
They were deeply impressed to visit various gymnasiums in the sports village which were successfully rebuilt as a comprehensive center for sports and culture as required by the new century and are making a positive contribution to the development of the country's sports and the exchange of sports with various countries of the world.
Pro-wrestlers watched demonstrations of Judo and wrestling of young people of the DPRK engrossed in training with the resolution to glorify the dignity and honor of Juche Korea and had joint trainings with them at the Combat Sports Gymnasium.
They deepened the friendship while playing a tug of war and arm wrestle with young people of the DPRK. And they also exhibited their physical fitness by pulling a bus.
They also visited the Okryu Children's Hospital and the Munsu Water Park.
[DPRK Attraction] Foreign Campers Visit Mangyongdae
Camping groups from different countries taking part in the 31st Songdowon international children's camping visited Mangyongdae, birthplace of President Kim Il Sung.
North Korea Is Open For Business
The 17th Pyongyang Spring International Trade Fair (2014). Businessmen from China and North Korea come here to exchange contacts and trade.
[DPRK Health] Pyongyang Rest Home
2004 Pyongyang North Korea
The Melodians Steel Orchestra UK visited Pyongyang, North Korea in 2004 to perform at the April Spring Friendship Festival. This is a recording of their performance in the Concert. They played 'Song of Dear Home' composed by The Great Leader, Danny Boy and Tropical Monsoon composed for the Melodians by the late Mikey Andrews.
KCNA (Participants in Int′l Festival Visit Old Home of Kim Jong Il)
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KCNA (DPRK Olympic Players Return Home from London)
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