The Pyongyang Metro

The Pyongyang Metro is very spectacular. The stations are very deep down, built so because they can also double as air raid shelters capable of withstanding a nuclear bomb.

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

16th December 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

The Metro
Great shot. Not sure I'll ever go to North Korea but liked this photo.

17th December 2017

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Thanks
Thanks for the comment. I am pretty sure that I will never go back again. I have been thinking that it would be interesting but it is not likely to happen. /Ake

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