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12 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Pyongyang, North Korea

Updated January 3, 2024

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North Korea’s late leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il tower over visitors to the Grand Monument at Mansu Hill, reinforcing the Kim family’s power.

Inside Pyongyang, North Korea's Capital of Control

Every detail of the city's architecture and urban planning is in service to the Kim dynasty.
by Caroline Campbell
American and Korean hockey teams meeting in Pyongyang, on the frozen Taedong River, in 1933.

The Presbyterian Roots of Ice Hockey in North Korea

When Americans represented Pyongyang with pride.
by Robert Kim
American Presbyterian Mission Annual Meeting in Pyongyang, 1910s.

The Forgotten American Missionaries of Pyongyang

In the decades before World War II, U.S. Christians created a "Jerusalem of the East."
by Robert Kim

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