I stayed two weeks in North Korea in april 2008. The pictures you will see are not stolen ones, it’s just what i’ve seen during my trip and what the governement wants or allows to show to tourists. When you’re in North Korea, you have always with you two guides, everywhere you go, and you do not choose where you want to go, you have to follow a very strict program. I try to give you facts and stories...
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Songdowon international children’s camp in Wonsan. The video games room. They play on Micro Genius computer game.
North Korean army 북한 Pyongyang The famous Bush’s "axis of evil" includes Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. In NK, every young man stay for 6 years in the Army. It means that for 6 years, they won’t have many news from their families for most of them cos there is no email, mobile or private phone in North Korea.
On june 26, North Korea has handed over to China a dossier on its nuclear activities, and plans to destroy the cooling tower at its Yongbyon reactor complex. The Bush administration may take North Korea off the State Department’s terrorism blacklist.
Kim Il Sung and the kid - North Korea Mansudae Hill, in Pyongyang, where visitors (locals and tourists) are invited to lay flowers and pay respects to the Great Leader Kim Il Sung. This statue impressed a lot of some of the african dictators, such as Ratzirak from Madagascar who ordered the same kind of statue to be built in his country. The little girl is coming back from putting flowers in front of the statue, to pay respect.
Daddy, hold my hand!!!!!
In remote places, like parks, people accepted my shots, but kids were always frightened by my camera... Polaroids were very much appeciated! Pyongyang, in front of Monument to the Founding of the Party, North Korea
Kim, Pyongyang North Korea, DPRK Polaroid
Hi there! I’m back on planet Earth! I was on a strange planet, without press, web,mail,mobile,advertising,demonstrations,freedom,cars (one good thing!),and tourists... North Korea! More to come!
I do not know what the Tv, teachers, or parents told to their children, but taking pictures of kids is more difficult than shooting a tiger in India! On sunday, kids can walk in the streets, but they have to remain with same *** friends, and same age.
Mass game Pyongyang North Korea 북한 On a sunday afternoon, on the main Pyongyang place without any cars cos on sunday they are not allowed in North Korea, thousands of young girls obey to the orders of the dance professor to rehearse a mass game.
Pyongyang boredom - North Korea The government takes care of everything in North Korea, even of the fun... On this sunday afternoon, all the kids were rehearsing a mass game, and the parents too. So the buildings and and the streets around were totally void...Strange mood. You can find a famous satellite picture on the net showing a map of the Korean peninsula by night, with a huge difference between the north and south. In North Korea, there is no public lighting, and people use very low wattage bulbs in their houses. The North Korean capital is as surreal by night as it is by day. Due to the fuel crisis there’s hardly any traffic to be heard after dark, and nightlife is virtually non-existent. Only monuments are lit during local festivities. Every hour, on the hour, from 6 am to midnight, loudspeakers blast out a patriotic song. Tourists are totally forbidden from leaving their hotels to walk around town, even though Pyongyang is safe, that’s the rule. The outsides of the buildings are regularly painted and renovated, but inside, they are rather run down.
Dressed for sunday - Pyongyang North Korea
Pyongyang is rather a dull town. There is no advertisings bilboards, the only colours come from the beautiful dresses of the women. Most of them are dessed like this on sunday with the "Choson Ot" or special occasions, and go to Kim Il-sung monuments to put fresh flowers.
Grand Monument on Mansu Hill - North Korea Mansudae Hill, in Pyongyang, where we were invited (not forced, invited) to lay flowers and pay our respects to the Great Leader Kim Il Sung. Those girls were cleaning the pavement (which was already perfectly clean). It’s part of the collective works. Later in Pyongyang, i saw hundreds of people plantings trees in a park, others changing a paved sidewalk. No one is payed, it’s just a way to contribute to the prosperity of the nation...
On Mansu Hill there is the bombastic Grand Monument. An enormous bronze statue of Kim Il Sung was erected here in 1972, to honor his 60th birthday.
A busy sunday afternoon in Pyongyang North Korea On Sundays, cars are not allowed in Pyongyang. Only vehicles belonging to the army and government are allowed on the road. Officials say that it’s to prevent pollution. The intersections are guarded by traffic officers, mostly comprised of cute young women who do strange robotic movements, even if no cars are coming. Privately owned cars are almost unheard of in North Korea. For a large part of the population the only transportation available are their own two feet, and thousands of people walk or ride everywhere. Beijing should imitate North Korea!
Local dress code - North Korea All of the North Korean population wears the same kind of clothes. Men wear a black costume, and most of the women in town a very straight jacket. Everybody sports a badge with either the North Korean flag or a portrait of Kim Il Sung, depending on whether you are a member of the Party or not. It’s impossible for tourists to buy Kim Il sung badges. But many can be found in the streets, lost by workers!
Tous les nords coréens portent le même type de vêtements. Les hommes, civils, sont tous habillés en costumes sévères et noirs, boutonnés jusqu’au cou. Les femmes, lorsqu’elles ne portent pas la robe colorée traditionnelle, réservée aux périodes de fêtes et de célébrations, portent aussi des vêtements stricts. Tout le monde arbore sur le revers de la veste le pins du drapeau nord coréen ou celui à l’effigie de Kim Il Sung, signe distinctif des membres du Parti.
Sleep well, our Army will protect you from the US... North Korea 북한
...seems to say this man to his child. North Korea is the most militarised country in the world.According to the US State Department, North Korea has the 4th largest military in the world, at an estimated 1.2 million armed personnel for 23 millions north koreans. Even if many think NK has nuclear bomb, the guns, cars, military equipment seems to come from the 50’s...
Pyongyang subway - North Korea
Pyongyang subway. Deep, very deep:120 meters below the surface! Two lines, old wagons in a DDR style. All the 17 stations have names like Triumphant Return, Reunification, Paradise, Glory...i do not know how people reminds the names!
Nampho lighthouse, on the east coast, North Korea
Local dress code for men -
All of the North Korean population wears the same kind of clothes. Men wear a black costume, and most of the women in town a very straight jacket. Everybody sports a badge with either the North Korean flag or a portrait of Kim Il Sung, depending on whether you are a member of the Party or not. It’s impossible for tourists to buy Kim Il sung badges. But many can be found in the streets, lost by workers!
Picture taken in a park during the national Day, on april 15. We could freely meet korean people and try to talk to them. This was not easy, as few speak english...Do not forget that they do not watch sat Tv, or have the lastest Us or english DVD or CD... All the kids in North Korea are involved in the Pioneers, a Party operated movement. Children enter the organization in elementary school and remain there until adolescence. The children wear the red kerchiefs, and when they are not at school, kids can roam the streets, but they have to remain with friends of their own age and gender.
Under the portraits of the beloved leaders - North Korea 북한
The portraits of the leaders are not only hung in the streets, in every house or building you can catch a glimpse of the portraits of Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il. The pictures are slightly inclined toward the floor, so you can see the eyes of the leaders following your every move. In every house, there is a government installed radio system which blasts out propaganda messages to the citizens, and which will even work when there are power cuts!
She’s called Kim. Pyongyang, North Korea DPRK 북한
作者：郑大第一帅哥 回复日期：2008-8-21 15:41:01
This is my country Songdowon international children’s camp in Wonsan. This camp welcomes kids from DPRK, China, Russia, Mongolia, Tanzania ...and before, from all the communist countries, for holidays. They have a lot of activites, like karaoke, video games, etc...
作者：郑大第一帅哥 回复日期：2008-8-21 15:42:53
The Respected Leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung Will Always Be With Them A little north korean girl with her english book. The cover represents the native house of The Respected Leader Generalissimo Kim Il Sung ( who Will Always Be With Them). Propaganda starts as young as possible, with books, tales, and even military themed paintings in the children’s playgrounds. The best selling book in North Korea is a book called HOW I ESCAPED SOUTH KOREA. It’s about a hero who escaped the terrible regime of South Korea to find heaven in North Korea
Sweet dreams kids
A Room in Songdowon international holiday children’s camp in Wonsan. This is the kind of place that DPKR authorities like to show to visitors: a perfectly clean room, with a fridge, a TV, etc. Of course, even in Europe, kids room cannot be so perfect...! It was not possible to see a second one. On the wall, this not Britney Spears or the Che posters, but the portraits of the leaders.
至少环境很干净，这一点比中国的强。
作者：郑大第一帅哥 回复日期：2008-8-21 15:47:08
The North Korean government loves to give medals. Not only to soldiers, but even to elevators! An elevator has been built to last, for example, 20 years. If it lasts more than 20 years, the government awards it. PCs, bridges, tractors, buses, can all be awarded medals too. On the left, the elevator in the picture received 3 "number 26” awards. It’s an exceptionnal elevator! The “ number 26” award is allocated specifically to machines. Well, problem is that when go inside, you know that this machine is over aged!
Not easy to get pictures from the nice girls in Pyongyang! No fatties in the streets: people walk a lot, and many use bikes...and no Mc Do around!
A north korean woman in traditional dress. A pleasure for the eyes.
好图,就是太大了,这些让我们看到中国几十年前
Few words about restaurants in North Korea: the food we had was good, bontiful, but was rather the same every day, and many times, everything was served cold...Squid, pickles, beef meat... No fruits at all. We saw once a girl selling apples in the restaurant, it was 1euro 1 apple. The names of the restaurant are pretty simple: National Restaurant, or Restaurant Number 1. We were often the only costumers in those places. The girls on the picture are waitresses in Kaesong restaurant. They shouted at me when i started to shoot a chair in the restaurant, i still do not know why!
我大致翻译下吧！
朝鲜军乐团在为修建公路的工人吹乐，这样刺激工人的劳动兴趣！
Music is everywhere: in the streets, in planes, in restaurants, in buildings, in buses, in the subway…If you are lucky you will even see some workers building roads, with a live military band to stimulate them in their endeavor.
Grand People’s Study House CD library
Grand People’s Study House CD library. The north korean can access this CD library and listen to them on big ghetto blasters. It seems that Grand Master Flash has sold his whole stock! The choice in the CDs is not big, you’re not at Virgin Megastore...The guy on the pic was listening to the lastest Beatles record. You can also listen to the radio, but only the national one, cos the tuner is blocked on the frequency...
CD学习室，可以听歌，也可以听广播，但只有国家广播一个台！
图书馆阅览室
The library, reading room. You can hear a missile flying.
跟我读--"I am Korean I live in Korea"，一个小女孩的英语课本 English lessons book of a little north korean girl.
Polaroid. Nurses with babies under the portraits of the 2 Kim. I must admit that the story is not clear about this orphanage: it is brand new, the babies and kids are full of life, no problem. Of course, it’s a place that is shown to foreign visitors. The problem is that in fact, it is not a orphanage like in Europe, cos kids do have parents. But parents who do not have enough money , put their babies here. The strange thing is: there’s a lot of twins, and even some triplets in the orphanage! The official explanation is: when a couple’s got twins, he cannot afford to educate them, so government takes care of them...
The portraits of the leaders are not only hung in the streets, in every house or building you can catch a glimpse of the portraits of Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il. The pictures are slightly inclined toward the floor, so you can see the eyes of the leaders following your every move.
In every house, there is a government installed radio system which blasts out propaganda messages to the citizens, and which will even work when there are power cuts!
One of the triplet
One Star General Pak Chan Su. When we asked him why he had so many medals, he answered that he killed a lot of people!..Stupid question! ================================== 一星将军朴正素，当我们问他为什么有那么多奖牌时，他回答说因为他杀了很多人！。。。愚蠢的问题！
Women army North Korea DPRK
Those young girls are all orphans, and serve in the North Korean army. Perfection is required! The pix should have been better, but it was forbidden to take pix...Do not know why...i do not see any strategic thing on it! And it was sundown... ----------================================= 训练中的朝鲜女兵，都来自孤儿。本来可以拍的更好，但是不让拍照
训练中的朝鲜女兵
All the kids in North Korea are involved in the Pioneers, a Party operated movement. Children enter the organization in elementary school and remain there until adolescence. The children wear the red kerchiefs, and when they are not at school, kids can roam the streets, but they have to remain with friends of their own age and gender. ============================================= 所有的朝鲜孩子都是少先队员，由一个组织指挥。孩子们是在小学时入队的，他们佩戴红领巾。
Supervising the army parade In the Pyongyang streets, North Korea. The chief had a mike and shouted his orders to the girls. ============================ 军队操练督导---这个长官正用麦克风向女孩们发令！
38线 KMZ Korean Demilitarized Zone
The Korean Demilitarized Zone is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula that serves as a buffer zone between North and South Korea. The DMZ cuts the Korean Peninsula in half, crossing the 38th parallel on an angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel and the east end lying north of it. It is 155 miles (248 km) long and approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and is the most heavily armed border in the world. This isolation has created as a byproduct one of the most well-preserved pieces of temperate land in the world!! The 2 countries have signed armistice but NOT the peace...
I do not speak korean, but i guess they are not friends with the US... I just saw 2 posters like this in Pyongyang. The other one showed a NK soldier smashing the head of a marine! ================================ 街道上的宣传画
North Korean Traffic Lady in front of a propaganda poster in the streets of Pyongyang, North Korea. ============================== 女交警和宣传画
8pm: 100 000 dancers at the giant ball On april 15, birthday of the late Kim Il Sung, Mass dancing on Kim Il Sung Square. More than 100 000 "official" dancers are there, and for 1 hour, they will dance, by couple, sometimes not mixed ones. The audience is invited to join them...So i’ve dived in the crowd! The music is performed by a live band, and all the songs are about Kim Il Sung. ============================================ 4月15号晚上8点，10万人的大型节目，纪念金二世的生日。节目持续1小时，现场音乐由一个乐团演奏，所有的歌曲都是关于金二世的！
Mass dancing on Kim Il Sung Square. 100 000 dancers in lines, having real fun cos many were smiling, laughing, and it was the first i saw so many people happy...but as soon as the lines are broken, an official scold the dancers...Pyongyang North Korea
One big problem in the countryside is the lack of public transport, very few buses are around, and no cars, so you come across a lot of people walking for kilometers, or riding bikes. But even if they had transportation, people wouldn’t be allow to move around lot as they are required to remain in their villages. Many check points are set up along the roads, so people walk along disused or deserted railway lines to avoid them. Another main problem is the poor productivity of the land, due to desertification and massive use of pesticides. ================================== 农村最大的问题是缺乏公共交通工具，极少公共汽车，没有小汽车，所以你会经常碰到很多步行或骑自行车数公里的人。即使他们有交通工具，他们也不能随便走动。 公路沿线很多检查点，所以人们更愿意走在废弃的铁路沿线去避免检查。还有一个问题是，由于沙漠化和过度使用杀虫剂，土地产量极少。
Pyongyang view, taken from Yanggakdo hotel. You can find a famous satellite picture on the net showing a map of the Korean peninsula by night, with a huge difference between the north and south. In North Korea, there is no public lighting, and people use very low wattage bulbs in their houses. The North Korean capital is as surreal by night as it is by day. Due to the fuel crisis there's hardly any traffic to be heard after dark, and nightlife is virtually non-existent. Only monuments are lit during local Pyongyang view festivities. Every hour, on the hour, from 6 am to midnight, loudspeakers blast out a patriotic song. Tourists are totally forbidden from leaving their hotels to walk around town, even though Pyongyang is safe, that’s the rule. The outsides of the buildings are regularly painted and renovated, but inside, they are rather run down.
鸟瞰平壤
Omnipresent smile In North Korea, the gap is big between the grey town, the strict behaviour of the people, and the propaganda posters where KIm Il Sung is always laughing... ============================== 无所不在的笑容 在朝鲜，这个灰色的城市有很大的隔阂---对普通民众严格的行为要求，而金一世的的宣传画却无处不在，而且他永远在大笑！
The highways in North Korea are huge and car less. Planes could land there. You can even see kids playing in the middle of the road. Security is a major problem because children and old people are not used to seeing cars, so they cross over the roads at any time, without watching out for oncoming traffic... The only cars you can sometimes come across on highways are military ones, and most of them are stopped by the side of road, broken down. Or you can also see brand new Mercedes cars belonging to the north korean officials passing by at very high speeds. --------===================================== 朝鲜高速公路很宽，足可以降落飞机。但极少机车，你可以看到孩子在公路中间玩，他们随时可以上路玩，而不必担心过往交通。 唯一可以看到的车辆是军车，很多都停在路边，因为都坏掉了。有时可以看到属于政府部门的急速飞驰的新款奔驰车。
作者：郑大第一帅哥 回复日期：2008-8-21 18:45:58
自立的标语
Shine bright, you dawn, on this land so fair, The country of three thousand ri So rich in silver and in gold you are, Five thousand years your history. Our people ever were renowned and sage, And rich in cultural heritage, And as with heart and soul we strive, Korea shall forever thrive!
And in the spirit of Mount Paektu, With love of toil that shall never die, With will of iron fostered by the truth, We'll lead the whole world by and by. We have the might to foil the angry sea, Our land more prosperous still shall be, As by the people's will we strive, Korea shall forever thrive! >National Anthem
In North Korea, everythime you meet kids, they sing! Loud and well! --==================== 在朝鲜，不管什么时候，你遇见孩子们，他们都在大声唱国歌！ 国歌的意思大概是----我们将逐渐领导世界，朝鲜永远繁荣。。。。。。
Daily life in Pyongyang
Queueing in Pyongyang is a national sport, especially for the buses and the tramway. Pyongyang North Korea
Movie theatre---in the Grand Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea
One star = 50 000 km of safe driving
On every buses or trams, you can see red stars, like on this picture. One star = the bus made 50 000 km without ahaving any wreck! In North Korea, it is not too difficult, as there are few cars and no trafic jam! -------=================================== 在每个公共汽车车身上，你都可以看到红五星，就像这个上，一个星星代表安全行驶5万公里。这并不困难，因为车极少，更不会有什么堵车！
A long sunday afternoon in Pyongyang
In front of the tower of Juche, Pyongyang, North Korea
Everywhere in the countryside, you can see those men who repair the flat tires of the bikes. They just sit in the street and wait with a bicycle pump.
The farm for the tourists If you visit North Korea, you'll have to visit a farmhouse. Do not forget that you're in a country where you cannot really choose what you want to see! So you have the chance to visit a farm, you 'll see one, very clean, big, with all the propaganda bilboards at the entrance. Everything would be perfect but something is missing: the farmers! You ask the guide where are the 300 farmers who work there...They have a day off today says the guide. Bad luck for us! So we visit a house in the farm. As soon as we enter the house, the kids start to sing a patriotic song. Applause. Next visit? -============================== 专供游览的农场。如果你去了朝鲜，有必须参观一个农场，不要忘了，你是在一个你不能随便选择去看的国家。你将看到一个大又干净，入口处满是标语的农场。 一切都是那么完美，但是你总感觉少了什么，那就是农民！ 当你问导游那300农民在那里工作时，导游说农民放假一天。 所以我们就进屋了，我们刚进屋，迎接我们的是孩子们的掌声和爱国歌声。 下次参观还这样？
Food store for foreigners Where you can find a lot of imported products from all over the world. Most of the biscuits come from...Fidji! Very few local people can access this store, as the prices are high. Even in those staores, you won't find any vegetables or fresh fruits. For 12 days we hadn't any fresh fruits... ================================= 专供外国人的食品店！在这里你可以看到从世界各地进口来的食品！ 极少当地人进这个商店，因为价太高。 即使这样的商店，你也找不到蔬菜和水果。 我们已经12天没有吃一点水果了！
North Korea, a nurse in an ophanage in front of a propaganda freso with the two Kim and children(Polaroid shot) Nampho orphanage is a place that is proudly shown to foreigners. It appears obvious that it's a set up designed to fool tourists. It’s clean, the babies and kids are full of life, playing with tons of toys. There are a lot of twins and even triplets inside. But this it is not an orphanage like any you’ll find in western countries, because most of the kids do have parents. Officials tell parents that they haven’t got enough money to raise their kids, so they put their babies in the orphanage, and government takes care of them. Lots of debates exist about those orphanages.
I told you "no photo!" North Korea 不要拍！
"How i escaped South Korea" Yes, you've read well: the best seller in North Korea is a book called "How i escaped South Korea"... It's about a hero who escaped the terrible regim of South Korea to find heaven in North Korea. ========================================= 我是如何逃离南韩的 是的，你已经知道了，在朝鲜卖的最好的书是--我是如何逃离南韩的，书中描写了一个英雄从恐怖的南韩逃往朝鲜寻找天堂的故事！
The safest railways in the world We didn't see any trains for 10 days... -================================ 世界上最安全的铁路 我们10天也没看见一辆列车！
坚决抵制美国的可口可乐，我们喝自己的朝鲜可乐
平壤地铁
Souvenirs from Pyongyang it's a great honour for the north korean citizens to come in Pyongyang. The Party organizes some visits,mainly in the monuments, and some photographers sell your picture as a souvenir. -----===================== 平壤留念 对于朝鲜人来说，能去趟平壤市莫大的荣耀。某个组织组织一些旅游者，主要是在纪念碑前，还有一些拍照者向你卖照片作为纪念品！
Brand new propaganda billboards are re paint before every celebration in the country, while the buildings are not.. ============================= 所有的宣传牌在每年国庆前都要重新刷漆
Kim Il Sung North Korea 북한
Mansudae Hill, in Pyongyang, where visitors (locals and tourists) are invited to lay flowers and pay respects to the Great Leader Kim Il Sung. This statue impressed a lot of some of the african dictators, such as Ratzirak from Madagascar who ordered the same kind of statue to be built in his country. -======================= 参观者被邀请给金一世献花或表达敬慕。 这个雕塑给了非洲很多独裁者很深印象，比如马达加斯加的Ratzirak就下令在全国修建很多他的雕像。
The Army and its soldiers are everywhere in North Korea. In the streets, in front of buildings, even in the fields in the countryside to help the farmers. North Korea is the most militarized country in the world, at an estimated 1.2 million armed personnel for 23 million North Koreans. Even if many think NK has nuclear bombs, the guns, cars, sidecars, and most of its military equipment seem to come from the 50's... In NK, every young man will stay in the army for 6 years. It means that during that time, they will have few news or contact with their families because there is no e-mail available, and mobile and private phones are very rare.
There is a famous satellite picture on the web showing a map of the korean penisula by night, with a huge difference beetween north and south. in North Korea, there is no public light, and in the houses, people use very low light. On this picture that i took from my hotel room, you just can see the public lights on the monuments. As a tourist, it is not possible to walk at night in Pyongyang. You cannot go out from the hotel...
主题思想塔放光芒
A local shop in North Korea
it is not difficult for a tourist to visit the local shops. I saw few, and everytime, i could buy cakes, chocolate (from Japan), biscuits etc. They sell a lot of canned food too. But no fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, or Coca Cola.
Every year in Pyongyang takes place the Kimjongilia festival,opened on the occasion of the birthday of Kim Jong Il. Exhibited in the venue of the festival are more than 25,000 potted Kimjongilias flowers cultivated by the military organs, commissions and ministries of the Cabinet and national institutions and other institutions and industrial establishments, servicepersons and people from all walks of life and school youth and children, says the officials.
There is a band who sings and plays live, to entertain the queue, cos thousands of people come to see the festival...Tourists do not have to queue.
All Pyongyang citizens will queue to see the festival which consists in a 2 storeys buildings full of flowers. The queue is very impressive, i do not know how long people wait...Even during week end time, they have to queue! ================================== 平壤市民在排队等待进入看花节，有两层楼的花。
During the Kimjongilia festival, it was the first time we could walk and meet north koreans people. Not easy to make contact. This little girl represents well the mistrust towards foreigners... ======================== 对外国人不信任的朝鲜孩子
为什么他们女得都要穿丝袜,之后套上白袜子?
It would be interesting to see the photo album of a north korean family, they might have a lot of pix like this in many places. ============================ 全家福里不能少了金氏父子
Dreaming of reunification? ========================= 梦想统一？
Here is the only ads that you can see in Pyongyang, mixed with the war propaganda against USA! It is rather surprising to see this ad cos who can afford the price of such a car in North Korea? Cars has built a factory in the north of the country, employing local north koreans, instead of chinese workers, to manage them in korean language. Perhaps the chinese start to cost too much? =========================== 平壤唯一的户外广告牌---和平牌汽车！ 不知道哪个朝鲜人可以买得起？
Hands on her hearts, singing a patriotic song, in the orphanage. It was very nice to see them sing like this, but i'm afraid the lyrics are not so nice...For sure, devotion to Kim is instilled at very young age. There is a lot of twins and triplets in orphanage. The official reason is that parents cannot afford to raise 2 or 3 kids at same time. If you search Google, you will find others reasons in many webpages, wrong or right, i do not know.. I just can tell that the ones we saw where happy, funny, and in good health. We didn't choose the orphanage to visit. ================================ 孤儿院里三胞胎，正在手握心口，唱爱国歌曲！
I was not supposed to take pictures! I think you can read it in his eyes... But even when i took pictures without permission, i had no problem with the guides, no one asked me about deleting a picture. I was lucky. =========================== 从他的眼神里可以看出，他是不让拍照的
On April 15, many people were in the parks to celebrate the former president birthday. It was nice to see some real life, with dances, lunches, and even alcohool. For once, north koreans looked humans and did not act like the robots they seem to be when you see them walking in black in the streets.
Former President Kim Il Sung is named the Eternal Sun. As the leader of North Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il. He was also the General Secretary of the Workers Party of Korea .He is designated in the constitution as the country's Eternal President. You can see his face everywhere in the country. North Korea runs on its own calendar, based on the Juche. In 2000 for example, North Korea was in Juche years, year 89!
Kim Il Sung est appelé le Soleil Eternel, et souvent représenté selon ce surnom sur les posters de propagande. La constitution l’a désigné comme le président éternel du pays. Son portrait est omniprésent. la Corée du Nord a son propre calendrier, basé sur le Juché. Ainsi en l’an 2000, le pays était en l’an 89 du Juché.
The big principles of the workers party: 1. We must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the revolutionary ideology of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung.
2. We must honor the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung with all our loyalty.
3. We must make absolute the authority of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
4. We must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung revolutionary ideology our faith and make his instructions our creed.
5. We must adhere strictly to the principle of unconditional obedience in carrying out the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung's instructions.
6. We must strengthen the entire partys ideology and willpower and revolutionary unity, centering on the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
7. We must learn from the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung and adopt the communist look, revolutionary work methods and people-oriented work style.
8. We must value the political life we were given by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung, and loyally repay his great political trust and thoughtfulness with heightened political awareness and skill.
9. We must establish strong organizational regulations so that the entire party, nation and military move as one under the one and only leadership of the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
10.We must pass down the great achievement of the revolution by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il Sung from generation to generation, inheriting and completing it to the end. North Korea ================================= 金主席--永远的太阳
Festivity in town The bad thing in North Korea, when you're a tourist, is that you need to respect a programme. For example, we came across this concert, but as it was not in the program, we didn't have the right to stop...So if you want to shoot, you have 5 seconds, the time your car passes in front..
Karaoke on Missiles North Koreans are fond of Karaoke. In every retaurants, you have a TV and you can sing on the patriotic songs. The pictures show missiles, army, parade... ================================ 为发射导弹歌唱！ 朝鲜人喜欢卡拉ok，在每个餐馆，你都可以唱，画面是导弹，军队，队伍。。。
美国人五十年前还是对中国人民做了件功德无量的好事啊
Very special toilets Songdowon international children's camp in Wonsan. The whole building has an incredible architecture. Toilets are special in North Korea: mainly, there is a door, but that you cannot lock..so you have to knock to know if anyone is already inside... But the funniest ones where in the Children Thetare: the toilets do have a door, but...with in glass, and transparent! So the man inside feels like beeing in a peep show! Lot of laugh. =========================== 奇怪的厕所，只有一个门！
Daddy, Let's attack america!
In North Korea, the father or the mother carries his child like that, even when they are 3 or 4. I haven't seen any stroller. It's the tradition.
Treasures are well kept The International Friendship Exhibition, home to shrines to the 'Great Leader', Kim Il-sung, and his son Kim Jong-il. 600 rooms contain more than 250 000 gifts from all around the world... From ivory to kitsch fake copies. Samsung also offered a gold mobile phone...which isn’t very useful in North Korea, seeing as there is no mobile network. The funniest gift is a basketball signed by Michael Jordan, apparently given by Madeleine Allbright to Kim Jong Il. The museum has been created in the hill for security reasons. No pictures are allowed to be taken inside. Our tour guide said with pride that if we stayed for 1 minute in front of each gift, we would need 1 whole year to visit the entire museum. On the right: a stuffed alligator, a gift from a member of the leadership of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, and minister of the interior of the council of National Reconstruction of the republic of Nicaragua, in 1971.You have to wear protection on your shoes, as you may put some dirt inside… The museum displays a collection of pictures showing Kim Il Sung alongside other leaders such as Castro, Khadafi, Sihanouk, and many others. =================================== 金主席和他的儿子拥有来自世界各地的超过25万件宝贝，放在超过600间房子里，很好地被保护着！
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