The North Korean authorities are scratching their heads over the
lack of exhibition materials for display in the Victorious Fatherland
Liberation War Museum, which was expanded dramatically last year. “These days, every Chosun trade representative I meet asks me
to find materials relating to the 6.25 War (Korean War),” a Korean businessman
in Dandong told Radio Free Asia. Another source recalled a request asking for
the June edition of a Korean monthly magazine, explaining, “The request was based
on the assumption that pictures and articles about the 6.25 War would be
published in the magazine.”
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The reconstruction of Pyongyang Sunan
International Airport, now in its second year, is designed to build Kim Jong
Eun’s legacy of achievements. According to Radio Free Asia, the new terminal will
have four floors and be as large as Washington’s Dulles International Airport.
Some think that Kim, who has been to many modern airports abroad, is keen
to show off through the construction. Kim is currently expanding an airfield
in Wonsan, making it into an international airfield.
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The first regular flights between Pyongyang
and Harbin will take off on July 18th, Heilongjiang Sinmun reported
on the 11th. There will be two flight per week in each direction until October
4th […] Elsewhere, the first flight between Shanghai and Pyongyang took
place on July 6th, and between Changchun, Yanji and Pyongyang on
June 29th.
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It has emerged that an increasing number of people are trading private patches of land, leading to increasing land prices. An inside source in North Hamkyung Province told Radio Free Asia that powerful cadres and members of the security services are keenly buying up private plots, while an inside source in Yangkang Province said, “Plots on a slope of less than 15 degrees are being traded for 1 RMB per pyeong (1 square meter is equal to 0.3025 pyeong), or 1230 KPW (North Korean Won). The sources emphasized that this buying will have a big impact on the Kim regime in due course, because it implies that people want to buy land as permanent assets.
