Mangyongdae and the house Kim Il-sung allegedly was born in

I was taken to this place and the guides explained that Kim Il-sung was born in one of the houses in the picture. The line of people wanting to see this was many hundreds of meters long and while I stood there hundreds of people walked past the house to get a quick glimpse of the attraction.

North Korea 1997

May 1st 1997
A place very different from everything else We travelled also before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about maybe a handful of those. We will write when we have the time and time is usually scarce so these blog entries will be long in between. Here is the first one and it is about a country very ... read more

Asia » North Korea » Pyongyang

An independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium, Korea was occupied by Japan in 1905 following the Russo-Japanese War; five years later, Japan formally annexed the entire peninsula. Following World War II, Korea was sp... ... read more

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