The Capital Of North Korea.

I will make you to go to Pyung-yang legally~~~!!!

The capital of North Korea is Pyung-yang. Pyung-yang is a city under the direct control of the central government. The area of Pyung-yang is 2,629㎢ and the number of people is 3,159,000(in 2009).
Pyung-yang is the largest city in North korea and the center of politics, administration, economy, and culture.
It was the seat of provincial government when Korea was liberated, and in 1946 Pyung-yang was promoted to metropolitan city.
The current administrative districts are Joong. Pyung-chun. Bo-tong-gang. Dae-dong-gang. Man-gyeong-dae, Yong-sung, etc. It is divided into Gang-nam, Joong-hwa, Sang-won, Gang-dong.

It is the center of Pyung-yang industrial zone which is the biggest one of North Korea. There are heavy industries such as, mechanic, fuel-energy, and construction and light industries like clothing, shoes, and food.
Pyng-yang has a thermoelectric power plant(500,000kW).

Also, Pyung-yang is central area of transportation. It is a starting point of train(rail road), Express way, and is a bus terminal. There is a international rail road to Moscow and Beijing and Soon-ahn air port in Soon-ahn district. The subway system is 34km, including Cheon-ri-ma line, Hyuk-sin line, Man-kyung-dae line.

The climate is 10.4'C, a year average, 986mm, a year average.( National Weather Servce, 1996)



Here comes some pictures of Pyung-yang.

Pyung-yang city

The flag of the Soviet Union.

 The tower of Juche idea(주체사상탑)

"JOE-SUN KOREA hotel" in pyung-yang

 The nightscape of Pyung-yang

Satellite picture of North Korea

China, South Korea, and Japan are bright, but North Korea is black except for Pyung-yang(little light).



The Flag Of The North Korea

It is called "In Gong Gi" in South Korea, and "Gong Hwa Gook Gook Gi" in North Korea.
From the top, it has blue, red, blue color. And between them, there are two white stripes.
Rate of them; blue : white : red : white : blue = 6 : 2 : 17 : 2 : 6.
In the red stripe, there is a red star which is in the white circle.
The red color represents a revolutionary spirit of communism, the red star is construction of communism,
white circle means balance of yin and yang, blue stripe refers the hope of its people for peace,
and thin white line, traditional color, represents the bright future.

Members of the national soccer team

Pyong Yang Express

(I don't know what the hell this is, either;;;;)

North Korean Women cheering their team

Rightists are having a street demonstration



The Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Hello~
I'm Brian Lee
and my student #  is 20081160
I'm in the Intermediate English Composition class.(Mon 10-12 a.m. & Thur 3-5 p.m.)

I've been interested in North Korea.
So, i decided to investigate North Korea.

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.
Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea. The Amnok River and the Tumen River form the border between North Korea and the People's Republic of China. A section of the Tumen River in the extreme northeast is the border with Russia.

The peninsula was governed by the Korean Empire until it was annexed by Japan following the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. It was divided into Soviet and American occupied zones in 1945, following the end of World War II. North Korea refused to participate in a United Nations–supervised election held in the south in 1948, which led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones. Both North and South Korea claimed sovereignty over the Korean Peninsula as a whole, which led to the Korean War of 1950. A 1953 armistice ended the fighting; however, the two countries are officially still at war with each other, as a peace treaty was never signed. Both states were accepted into the United Nations in 1991. On May 26, 2009, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the armistice.

North Korea is a single-party state under a united front led by the Korean Workers' Party (KWP). The country's government follows the Juche ideology of self-reliance, developed by the country's former President, Kim Il-Sung. After his death, Kim Il-Sung was declared to be the country's Eternal President. Juche became the official state ideology when the country adopted a new constitution in 1972, though Kim Il-sung had been using it to form policy since at least as early as 1955. Officially a socialist republic, many media organizations outside North Korea report that it is a totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship. Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung have constructed around them a cult of personality. It is reported as having one of the world's worst human rights records. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a famine which killed an estimated 2-3 million people. Due to the government's secretive nature and its reluctance to allow in foreigners, North Korea is today considered the world's most isolated country. The current secretary of the KWP Central Committee Secretariat and leader of the armed forces is Kim Jong-il, son of Kim Il-sung.