Mangyongdae

Mangyongdae

Mangyongdae

Neighborhood in Pyongyang, North Korea

Mangyongdae (Korean: 만경대) is a neighborhood in Mangyongdae-guyok, Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean propaganda claims Mangyongdae is the birthplace of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, although in his memoirs he wrote that he had been born in the nearby neighborhood of Chilgol. Mangyongdae is where his father Kim Hyong-jik was from, and where Kim Il Sung spent his childhood.[1]

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Mangyongdae has been designated as a historic site since 1947, and is listed as a Revolutionary Site.[2][3] Original structures at the site have been replaced with replicas.[1]

Mangyongdae has since been incorporated to the city of Pyongyang.[4] The Football at the Mangyongdae Prize Sports Games and Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon are both named after the area.

  • Sign about Kim's birthplace with flowers in front of it (2012)
  • Kim Il Sung's birthplace (2008)
  • The house complex (2018)
  • Mural near Kim's birthplace (2012)

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Hoare 2012, p. 257.
  2. [2]
    Corfield 2014, p. 120.
  3. [3]
    Willoughby, Robert (15 November 2007). The Bradt Travel Guide: North Korea (Second ed.). Chalfont: Bradt Travel Guides. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-84162-219-4.
  4. [4]
    Martin, Bradley K. (2007). Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-4299-0699-9.

Works cited

Further reading

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  • Mangyongdae. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. 1981. OCLC 41146799.


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