Monument to Party Foundation-Korean Workers' Party

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From: travel to North Korea

Monument to Party Foundation-Korean Workers' Party

Pyongyang has its towering monuments devoted to the wisdom of kimilsungism, but few could be so imposing as the Monument to Party Foundation. Erected in 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Korean Workers' Party, each part of this statute stands 164 feet tall and is designed, in the words of the official PYONGYANG REVIEW, to be "symbolic of the single-minded unity of the leader, Party, and people," Unlike the traditional communist symbol of hammer and sickle for workers and peasants, North Korea's emblem, as shown here, features a writing brush for intellectuals -- supposedly used to reinforce the importance of education after the country's post-war brain drain.