First thing in the morning after breakfast is this museum. It's dedicated to the Korean War. First thing you see is a painting of Kim Il Sung. Once again we're shown an anti-American documentary and then shown around the various exhibits. The elevators are broken here.
Another Kim Il Sung painting.
After WWII, the USSR donated a large amount of it's T-34 tanks to the North Koreans. Apparently each little white star on the gun barrel represents an American tank that this tank destroyed,
Another WWII Soviet-made North Korean tank, also marked with its number of kills. This is a pretty lightly armored vehicle, not sure how feasible it is for it have scored that many given that the North Koreans weren't particularly experienced with mechanized warfare.
The basement of the museum contains American weapons and vehicles either captured or destroyed during the war.
To top it off, the museum has a massive rotating diorama, it takes about 15 minutes to see the whole thing. It depicts some Korean War battle. We asked what this is based on, whether photos, documents, etc? The girl guiding the tour answers, "the artists' imagination." I don't doubt it.
Candid shot of North Korean soldiers taken from the bathroom window the Victorious Fatherland museum.
Picture with the girl who guides the museum tour. Apparently she's an actual soldier with weapons training and all; we asked. Note my crooked glasses... hot, I know. After the museum, we headed for the international airport, our flight was to leave at noon. Our minders finally relinquished our passports and tourist papers.
View of the airport from the plane. Very fancy. Bye, Kim Il Sung; thanks for the hostil...err... hospitality.
The plane we left in, was thankfully enough, a new production Russian Tupolev Tu-204, with such luxuries as plasma screens and even overhead baggage compartments that close. It's not really much better than Western equivalents, but it is actually remarkably quiet, probably the quietest jet I've ever flown on.
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