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Map of North Korean railroads. Rail transport in North Korea is provided by Korean State Railway (조선 민주주의 인민 공화국 철도성, Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk Ch'ŏldosŏng) which is the only rail operator in North Korea.
The Korean State Railway is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of North Korea (Korean: 조선민주주의인민공화국 철도성; MR: Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk Ch'ŏldosŏng), commonly called the State Rail (Korean: 국철; MR: Kukch'ŏl) [1] and has its headquarters at P'yŏngyang. The current Minister of Railways is ...
North Korea has a railway system consisting of an extensive network of standard-gauge lines and a smaller network of 762 mm (30.0 in) narrow-gauge lines; the latter are to be found around the country, but the most important lines are in the northern part of the country. All railways in North Korea are operated by the state-owned Korean State ...
On November 22, 2018, North and South Korea reopened a road on the Korean border which had been closed since 2004. [4] [5] On November 30, 2018, inter-Korean rail transportation resumed when a South Korean train crossed into North Korea for the first time since November 2008. [6] On December 8, 2018, a South Korean bus crossed into North Korea.
The private trains still serve a network of 19 stations across North Korea (including some underground palaces only accessible by rail). [ citation needed ] In December 2011, it was reported by North Korean television that Kim Jong Il died while on a train during a domestic trip.
The average annual income in North Korea according to a 2013 estimate, is thought be $1,000 to $2,000. Source: BBC. Bill Gates' net worth is four and a half times as large as North Korea's ...
The Korean State Railway's classification system presently uses a two-character type designator and a class number. [7]Initially steam and electric locomotives used a modification of the system used by Sentetsu prior to war's end; however, instead of using Japanese numbers, this class number was based on Korean numbers, and the two-syllable type designations were converted from Japanese ...
Most were freight (served industrial plants, ports, natural resource transport sectors, as well as military transport) and a few for passenger service in Japanese-occupied Korea. After the end of the Second World War, these were all nationalised, both in North and South Korea. This is a (nearly) exhaustive list of private railways in Korea.