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Home of Ryi Song Gye
An impressive complex of historic buildings set in attractive gardens and to which a particularly bawdy tale is attached.
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Samil Lagoon
The best place to visit in the Outer Kumgang Region is the Samil Lagoon (try hiring a boat, then rest at Tanpung Restaurant)
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Kaesim Buddhist Temple
The Kaesim Buddhist Temple dates from the 9th century and has working monks on the premises – in reality its just for show for tourists.
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Korean National Art Gallery
Worth a visit to see the postwar socialist realist art collection. There are 14 rooms of prewar Korean art that are of very high quality, too.
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Potong Gate
The western gate of the original walled city of Pyongyang dates from the6th century, but was rebuilt in the 15th century and then again in 1955.
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Sino
This television tower was built as a gift from the Chinese to the DRPK. Its possible to take the lift to the top and have a drink at the small cafe.
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Korean Central History Museum
The Korean Central History Museum is all rather predictable – a large number of exhibits about the Norths struggle against imperialism and oppression.
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Chanamsan
The largest hill in Kaesong is unsurprisingly topped by a giant statue of Kim Il-sung. Groups are sometimes allowed to walk up here for great city views.
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Tower of Immortality
The writing on this tower, through the base of which traffic drives, pledges that the Great Leader Kim Il-sung and the Dear Leader Kim Jong-il will always be with us.
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Chilsong Gate
Located inside what is today Pyongyangs main park, the Chilsong Gate was once the northern entrance to the original walled city of Pyongyang and dates from the 6th century.
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Songdowon Schoolchildren’s Camp
At this camp you can meet holidaying schoolkids and see a very curious collection of disintegrating taxidermy, a state-of-the-art aquarium and a rather colourful water slide.
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KPA Post
Your first stop will be at a KPA post just outside the DMZ. Here a soldier will show you a model of the entire site, pointing out South Korean as well as North Korean HQ and watchtowers.
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Revolutionary Museum
Adjacent to the Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il statues, this museum tells the truly grotesque story of how locals were burned alive protecting trees with revolutionary slogans on them during a forest fire.
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Taedong Gate
This is the eastern gate of the walled city of Pyongyang, and was built in the 6th century to defend the entrance to the inner fortress from the Taedong River. The structure you see today dates from 1635.
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Hungnam Fertiliser Factory
The Hungnam Fertiliser Factory can sometimes be visited, where you will be shown how ammonia is made deep inside the enormous industrial complex, an experience like no other, even by North Korean standards.
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North Hamgyong Province E
This E-Library is full of occasionally working computers that are theoretically linked to the national intranet. In the building next door, a highly aspirational model of the future development of Chongjin can be seen.
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Concrete Wall
The Concrete Wall, a US-constructed anti-tank barrier that runs the length of the entire 248km border. It has been hijacked as an emotive propaganda weapon by the North, which since 1989 has been comparing it with the Berlin Wall.
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Mangyongdae Revolutionary Museum
The Mangyongdae Revolutionary Museum, located near Kim Il-sungs birthplace, continues the theme of the Great Leaders childhood and makes the point that all his family members were Korean patriot revolutionaries of the humblest possible order.
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Secret Camp
The official birthplace of Kim Jong-il, and the spot from where Kim Il-sung supposedly directed some of the key battles during the anti-Japanese campaigns of WWII. No historians outside the DPRK have ever claimed the area was the site of battles.
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Chongjin Kindergarten
Most tours end with a visit to the Chongjin Kindergarten, where scarily intense children with glued-on smiles perform for tourists. In an odd gesture afterwards, visitors are encouraged to pick the children up and pose with them for photographs.
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