A Rare Look Inside North Korea

Published on November 23, 2017
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Lights, Camera, Action

This picture looks like a normal quite busy train station, right? Because trains primary purpose is to shuttle around tourists, train stations tend to close at an early hour. So what you’re looking at is a real train station filled with not real people… yes these are actors. When this picture was taken the trains had actually stopped running!

Lights Camera Action

Lights Camera Action

Kimjongilia Festival

The Kimjongilia is in fact a flower that is named after the late North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il. Kamo Mototeru, a Japanese botanist, cultivated this very flower in order to represent the friendship between Japan and North Korea. It is specifically designed to bloom every single year on Kim Jong-il’s birthday, February 16.

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Kimjongilia Festival

Kimjongilia Festival