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Ponghwa Revolutionary Site is a Revolutionary Site in Kangdong County, Pyongyang in North Korea. [2] The site is associated with Kim Hyong-jik, the father of North Korea's first leader Kim Il Sung. [3] Kim Hyong-jik lived in Ponghwa between mid-March 1916 and November 1917. [2] At that time, he was teaching at the nearby Myongsin School.
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.
Kangdong County is one of Pyongyang's two suburban counties. In 1983 it was separated from South P'yongan Province and assumed direct governance by the Pyongyang City People's Committee. It is bordered by Sŏngch'ŏn-gun (Songchon County), South P'yongan in the north and east, Sŭngho-guyŏk (Sungho District) from the south and the Taedong ...
On Sunday, North Korea's defence ministry said the drones, which it said were detected over Pyongyang on three days earlier this month, were the kind that required a special launcher or a runway ...
The statement published by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency was the first time state media commented on the September decision by South Korea’s Constitutional Court to ...
Korea Today, first published as New Korea, [5] is a North Korean propaganda [6] magazine published monthly by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Pyongyang. [1] The magazine focuses on cultural and industrial progress made in the country. [7] It also publishes North Korea short stories. [8]
North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un recently told top aides in his pariah kingdom that he will be launching Pyongyang’s “toughest anti-US counteraction” policy yet, according to state media ...
In 1991, future Filipino Foreign Affairs Secretary Domingo L. Siazon, Jr. visited North Korea as a guest of President Kim Il Sung. [3]In 1998, as chair of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the Philippines initiated the process of admitting North Korea as a member of the forum but the latter had stated that Southeast Asian countries, such as Brunei and the Philippines, should first establish ...