From the Palace we took a short drive to the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery which is located on Mt. Taesong. The cemetery contains rows of busts of soldiers who died in the liberation of Korea from the Japanese.
You approach it up the hill, with some members of the group being required to lay flowers, all the time surrounded by more of that stirring music from speakers mounted around the cemetery. A couple of quotes from a leaflet that I picked up in the hotel may give more of a flavour of the experience.
"The cemetery contains the busts of the anti-Japanese revolutionary martyrs who devoted their lives to the liberation of their country, to the freedom and emancipation of their people and to the victory of the cause of Juche."
"It was built in Juche 64 (1975) AND EXPANDED IN Juche 74 (1985) thanks to the warm affection of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il."
You approach it up the hill, with some members of the group being required to lay flowers, all the time surrounded by more of that stirring music from speakers mounted around the cemetery. A couple of quotes from a leaflet that I picked up in the hotel may give more of a flavour of the experience.
"The cemetery contains the busts of the anti-Japanese revolutionary martyrs who devoted their lives to the liberation of their country, to the freedom and emancipation of their people and to the victory of the cause of Juche."
"It was built in Juche 64 (1975) AND EXPANDED IN Juche 74 (1985) thanks to the warm affection of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il."
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