126. could it be, was i there?

[sociologique.livejournal.com]

Mansu Hill // Pyongyang, North Korea, August 2012

More Pyongyang, since that's where I had my camera out the most. We're almost through the pictures I'm willing to show you dudes of NoKo.


This side of the statue is a memorial to the Korean Worker's Party


And this side is a memorial to those who fought in the Fatherland Liberation War Korean War


The oboi suryŏng (Great Leader (formerly the title used to refer to Stalin but they put a stop to that as soon as Stalin stopped being Stalin)). Also they changed his face to make him look more like the happy, Fatherly Leader than the young guerilla revolutionary


The General, in his first of soon-to-be many statues.






That's the actual memorial to the Worker's Party






They're riding on a Ch'ŏllima, a horse that can leap a thousand li in a single bound and whose spirit symbolizes the people's fighting spirit and who was used heavily in propaganda and stuff in the 60s to industrialize and bring the country out of the War and shit AT THE SPEED OF A CHOLLIMA!!1

Comments

[eskarina77.livejournal.com]

Thank you for showing so many of your photos!
This trip must have been great!

[sociologique.livejournal.com]

It was definitely an experience. A really complicated experience, but in so many ways, I'm glad I went.