President Kim Il Sung and Pyongyang

Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang is the historic sacred place inseparably linked with the revolutionary life of President Kim Il Sung. He was born in Mangyongdae in Pyongyang on April 15, 1912, when the destiny of the nation was at stake owing to the Japanese imperialists' military occupation of Korea. He embarked on the road of the revolution in his teens and liberated the country from the yoke of the Japanese imperialists through 20-year-long bloody battles. It was in Pyongyang that he made his first speech upon his triumphal return home. Pyongyang is an operational base for the revolution where he mapped out all the lines and policies and led the Korean revolution and the human cause of independence. He authored and published many famous works here in his lifetime and met hundreds of political party, state and government leaders and many personages from different countries to give precious teachings on the human cause of independence. He radically changed the appearance of Pyongyang as befitting the capital city of new Korea. He initiated the project for the Pothong River improvement right after the liberation of the country, broke ground to signal the start of the project at the ground-breaking ceremony on May 21, Juche 35 (1946) and made a new history of the construction of Pyongyang. He wisely led the construction in the capital as the chairman of the Pyongyang municipal reconstruction committee in the postwar period. Every street and building in over 40 major avenues in Pyongyang is associated with his immortal feats. The president's statues historic monuments, monuments to dedicated poems and other monuments standing in different parts of Pyongyang hand his feats down to posterity. The president lies in state for perpetuity in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace built as the impeccable supreme temple of Juche. He is immortal along with ever-prospering Pyongyang.

Blueprint for Pyongyang reconstruction drawn in wartime
Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- A stream of people are flowing to the Jonsung Revolutionary Museum on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War. what draws their particular attention among historical materials on display is the general blueprint for the reconstruction of Pyongyang. It was worked out during the war (June 1950-July 1953). In January Juche 40 (1951) when the country was undergoing grim trials owing to the war kindled by the U.S. , President Kim Il Sung, with the conviction of the victory in the war, saw to it that the general blueprint was worked out. He told the designers that Pyongyang should be rebuilt more grandly than before so as to demonstrate the mettle of the Korean people in the reconstruction, too. He gave detailed teachings on where to build dwelling blocks, bridges across the River Taedong, main streets, industrial establishments, parks, and recreation grounds and how to plant trees along the streets. He initiated the construction of a brickyard and chose its site, saying that bricks were needed if we were to start the reconstruction project right after the victory in the war. It was thanks to such preparations that Pyongyang was rebuilt more grandly in a short span of time after the cease-fire. Only in the period of the 3-year plan (1954-1956) for post-war national economic reconstruction and development, owelling houses with a total floor space of 1.8 million square metres were built in Pyongyang. In this period, a street network of the city was mainly built and many schools, hospitals, theatres and other public establishments including Kim Il Sung Square, the West Pyongyang Stadium, Central Department Store No. 1 and Bath House No. 1 sprang up. Scenic spots including Moran Hill were turned into recreation and rest places. . Historical relics including Ulmil, Pubyok and Ryongwang pavilions were restored to their original state. Although the U.S. blared that Korea could not rise again in 100 years, the Korean people completely healed the damages of war in 2 to 3 years after the cease-fire.

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[IlyZor]

North Korea had a stronger economy than South for decades. When its main trade partners disappeared in the 90ies things began to worsen. Or what would happen if your country had noone to trade with anymore? Where would you get the oil from? How would you fuel cars and tractors?

[Yorobun]

Becoz the roads here are not as wide as today. Pyongyang today hase 12 lane wide roads compare to 50's 60's and 70's

[MrTennesseeVols]

Wow,the B52's and B29's of the USAF did a good job of reducing Pyongyang to rubble during the Korean War

[RedGeneral66]

@bjr43 It's basic definition is doing everything yourself with no help whatsoever

[darkredyanderelord]

pyongyang will never die :)

[Galv140577]

Do a search on "Kim il sung" all you get is propaganda saying how great he was. The evil sick mass-murdering extremely cruel despotic totalitarian dictator's legacy lives on, and North Korea is still the cruelist most evil place on Earth. Millions are starving, brainwashed to death, and suffering the unimagineable nightmare equivalent of George Orwell's psychological horror novel "1984" brought to life in full gruesome colour 3-D actuality.

[roygbiv330]

the surface railway and the town sight looked remained influenced on by japan.

[hornerm5]

USSR lean the hand just after the Korea War. Most of the building enginneer are from USSR. Yes, North Korea have stronger economy because of trading with all communist nations.Sometime in 80's, South Korea have better and stronger economy than North Korea. North Korea have not recovery the TRUE economy since end of war. The fall of USSR have completed cut-off all products to North Korea in 90's and North Korea put on to cutoff from the world.

[intel80386]

@IlyZor North Korea is a failure. Look at the south now. The companies, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, and KIA, those are household names.

[kloratis]

It's Russian

[Petterk00]

Did pretty much happen to Sweden during WW2, we used wood gas to power cars/tractors. We also used shale oil for a while. However after/during WW2 pretty much every country rationed everything. And NK has far to little energy resources to use, they destroyed their nature by felling to many trees etc. It's understandable that NK had this kind of collapse. However S.Korea surpassed them before the collapse.