Arch of Triumph (Pyongyang) The Arch of Triumph (Korean: 개선문; MR: Kaesŏnmun) is a triumphal arch in Pyongyang, DPRK. It was built to commemorate the Korean resistance to Japan from 1925 to 1945. Built in 1982 on the Triumph Return Square at the foot of Moran Hill (모란봉) in the capital city, Pyongyang, the monument was built to honour and glorify President Kim Il-sung‘s role in the military resistance for Korean independence. Inaugurated on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
President Kim Il Sung’s Great Devotion for People Pyongyang, April 10 (KCNA) — The Korean people have celebrated April 15, birthday of President Kim Il Sung, as the Day of the Sun. April 15 is one of the greatest national holidays to the people. But it was a “working day” for the President who had devoted his all to the people’s happiness. At early dawn of April 15, Juche 43 (1954), his first birthday after the Fatherland Liberation War, the President visited an agricultural cooperative in Junghwa County, which was included in South Phyongan Province at that time. He sat together with officials and members of the cooperative at the edge of a field to discuss farm work and indicated the orientation and ways for the cooperative to follow. That day, he went round...