Like everyone else, I had hoped that after our tiring though eventful ten hour bus trip from Pyongyang to Hamhung we would call it a day and head for our hotel. That was not to be. The day’s itinerary showed that we still had a fertiliser factory to visit and, notwithstanding that we were running a couple of hours late, visit it we did! Continue reading “Hungnam Fertiliser Factory – Hamhung, North Korea ”
Mother Kim Jong-suk – Starting a Trend in Cross Border Travel to China?
Our final stop in Hoeryong, specifically related to the memory of Kim Jong-suk, was the banks of the Tumen River which, here, serves as the country’s northern border with China. Having completed our tour of the Kim Jong-suk city sites we boarded our bus for the short trip to the border. Continue reading “Mother Kim Jong-suk – Starting a Trend in Cross Border Travel to China?”
Sino-Korean Friendship Tower
This monument, close the Kim Il-sung Stadium and the Pyongyang Television Tower serves two purposes.
Firstly it is a memorial, dedicated to Chinese martyrs of the Korean War Continue reading “Sino-Korean Friendship Tower”
Welcome Home Kim Il-sung
On 14 October 1945 over 100,000 people gathered here, beside the present day Kim Il-Sung Stadium and the Arch of Triumph, to celebrate the liberation of Korea, by the Russian army, from the evil clutches of Japan which had occupied the country for 35 years.
Liberation Tower
This is one of Pyongyang’s older modern age monuments having being built in 1947 (refurbished 1985). It stands at a height of 30 metres on Moran Hill close to the large bronze statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il (Mansudae Grand Monument) – the location from which I saw it. Continue reading “Liberation Tower”
The Rambling Wombat 