The Old Pyongyang Post

The lost world of old #Pyongyang, #NorthKorea: photos, vignettes, #baseball, true crime, & the human condition. #OPP

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Two of my favorite images of old #Pyongyang.

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"Time for a cowboy movie, who's in my posse?"

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Imagine Michael Palin and Steve Buscemi in this scene.

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Fall fashion in #NorthKorea, 1964.

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A "popular parrot" on parade in #Pyongyang, 1964.

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Some Rebel Alliance X-Wing vibes in this this 1960s rocket toy from #NorthKorea.

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Toys of 1960s #NorthKorea: elephant, truck, calculator, rocket!

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Photos from the Bangkokian Museum, which offers insights into life in #Bangkok between 1937-1957.

Earlier this year, I visited the museum with two friends who said the household interior and items reminded them of their childhoods in #NorthKorea.

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A recording of the song "My Lark" (나의 종달아) from the 1964 #DPRK film "A Story about a Fighter."

Both the film and song seem to have been purged in later years.

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An old song from the early days of #NorthKorea:

"A Sonata for Violin and Piano" recorded from #vinyl.

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More from the great Robert Neff:

"There has always been something magical about the East Sea. In the 19th century it was the hunting grounds for Western whalers. In Korean legend it was the domain of water ghosts and mermaids."

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A delegation from #NorthKorea visits #China in the 1950s.

I think this is on Nanjing Road (南京路) in #Shanghai with the silhouette of the Park Hotel in the background.

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Tanks of #NorthKorea on parade in #Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square in the late 1950s.

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I wonder how much the music, film, and architecture of Norodom Sihanouk's #Cambodia influenced #NorthKorea over the years.

In any case, #OPP highly recommends watching "Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll" (2014)"

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#Pyongyang-style and Kaesong-style rural homes in #NorthKorea, 1957.

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Destruction in downtown #Pyongyang during the #KoreanWar.

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Downtown #Pyongyang before the #KoreanWar.

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Shopping for cabinets, #Pyongyang, 1957.

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Kim Tu Bong (김두봉), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of #DPRK, meets Hồ Chí Minh of #Vietnam in #Pyongyang less than a year before Kim was purged.

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Hồ Chí Minh of #Vietnam in #NorthKorea in 1957.

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More social commentary from #NorthKorea, 1957.