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The Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang in 2014 depicting Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il (right), with visitors paying homage to the statues. [1]The North Korean cult of personality surrounding the Kim family [2] has existed in North Korea for decades and can be found in many examples of North Korean culture. [3]
By converting North Korea into a "huge open museum", [5] Kim's goal in designating the sites was to solidify the North Korean cult of personality centered around him and his father Kim Il Sung. [2] In 1988, there were 27 such sites. [6] Today, there are more than 60.
Troy Michael Collings (1986 or 1987 – February or March 2020) was a New Zealand businessman and tour guide. In 2008, he co-founded Young Pioneer Tours, [2] a company known for specialising in low-cost tours of North Korea and other remote places.
Tour dates. Date City Country Venue Attendance [a] November 17, 2023 Seoul: South Korea KSPO Dome: 60,000 [5] November 18, 2023 November 19, 2023 November 24, 2023
[1] [a] North Korea officially recognizes Kim Il Sung's "first" guidance tour as a trip to a Pyongyang factory on 24 September 1945, but "whether this was really a guidance tour is doubtful," as Kim's local visits "were irregular and intermittent in the 1940s, rather than planned and routinized as they were in the 1950s and 1960s."
"We Will Go to Mount Paektu" is a 2015 North Korean light music song in praise of the country's leader, Kim Jong Un. [2] [3]The song is important politically, and its lyrics recount a highly symbolic trek onto Mount Paektu, important in North Korean propaganda, by Kim Jong Un.
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The Wangjaesan Light Music Band (Korean: 왕재산 경음악단; MR: Wangjaesan Kyŏngŭmaktan) is a light music (kyŏngŭmak) group in North Korea.It is one of two (with Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble) popular music groups that were established by North Korea in the 1980s, both named after places where Kim Il Sung fought the Japanese in 1930s. [1]