In North Korea, architecture gets ... Mansu Grand Hill Monument. Photograph: Oliver Wainwright ... the 20-metre-high effigies of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il stand at the top of Mansu Hill, ...

(L-R) The national flag of North Korea (Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi), The Monument to Party Founding (Image by Tony Pletts) and Mansu Hill Grand Monument, Pyongyang Last year, as few as 4,000 ...

Pyongyang citizens pay respect to the statues of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on New Years’ Day in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP ...

Visitors to the secretive and closed-off are often treated to a visit to the Mansu Hill Grand Monument. In April 1972, Kim Jong Il had the monument constructed to mark Kim Il Sung's 60th birthday.

Easily the most sacred place in all of North Korea is the Mansudae Grand Monument, where bronze statues of Kim Il Sung, the supreme leader between 1972 and 1994, stands beside Kim Jong Il, who ...

SEOUL: North Korea has demolished a major monument in its capital that symbolised the goal of reconciliation with South Korea on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un, who last week called the rival a ...