Sorry, blurry:





Sorry, no better view Any chance for identifying it? The wall is on the right side of the entry of the Museum of Party Foundation:



As last pic on thi late evening a shot for dsl From the Karaoke-screen in our hotel:

If the colours are uniform for each model (or if there's only one of each left), the trolleybus with red stripes is a Chollima 70 and the one with blue stripes is a Chollima 72 (both models are based on the Skoda 706 bus family).

The mystery bus looks as if it might be an original Skoda 706.

We've spotted same Chollima 72 as in your link, that with the plate "200". Trolleybuses have three-digit plates.

Our Chollima 70-snapshots have other numbers, but very close to that in the link.

Unfortunately were weren't allowed to take a ride in the trolleybuses or the trams The travel-organisation-headquarter -th Ministery for Foreign Affairs" doesn't like that. As the visit of the legendary private-ruled Tong Ri-market neither.

@ingo thanks for the postcard from N-Korea, I received it today. Much appreciated. I'll be saving the (appropriately large) stamp of Kim Jung-Il.

You're welcome

So you are the first, who got his card. From the others I haven't heard that until now. Hopefully they'll get them, too. As it's said, post from the DPRK shall arrive rather later than sooner, but it shall arrive. I'm bit afraid, that they could be stolen outside the country, because it's a rare origin.

I'm interested, if the hardcore-anti-US-imperialism-propaganda-postcard with appropriate stamps will safely arrive to my friend in Canada

Two more pics for rjluna2, from the trip with the illegal taxi through Beijing, from the main train station to the airport:

Whoa Bunch of Mercury Vapor directional floodlights above these signs/beams!

Location: in front of Terminal 2 of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Capital_International_Airport
(the Wiki-article is not correct: Koryo Air is missing and I'm not sure, if Air China rules the destination to Pyongyang.

Thanks, ingo

Evenually, I'll add this to the Lighting Gallery web site. Seem the Mercury Vapor lamp that you posted first is getting popular. I have that picture posted at the Lighting Gallery site last night and so far 80 views has been made

Oh, that's funny, that it found so much interest. As I wrote, the guide-soldier-girl was loughing over and over, that I took this pic.

One more pic for you. All three versions at once:




Btw.: a lot of traffic-education is still needed there. Everyone sees traffic lights and all other traffic rules more as a honest recommendation, but not as a law.

Do you know what the light with the horizontal bar means?

Not really. I suppose, it's for the trolley-buses.

Pic for me too. This is made for Thailand, due to this is Thai language (warning label on alcohol bottle).

Is this North Korea location? (I guess it is not. I am not know anything about products from Thailand are exported to North Korea or South Korea.)



-- Krit

Of course it is. I made this pic in the shop of the motorway-guesthouse



between Pyonyang and Wonsan.

It's fascinating, what food, beverages and other stuff from everywhere on the world you can find in the DPRK. Of course, the import is not official, often brought into the country by members of DPRK-delegations or smuggled via China.

Despite the usual stuff, you can find everywhere on the world, as German and Dutch beer, Scottish Whisky, German and Belgian chocolade, German gherkins, French wine and so on, we spotted oddities like Argentinian beer, once Argentinian whisky, milk-cans from Lithuania, instant-coffee-mix-drinks from Malaysia and a plenty of different German no-name-food, so stuff, which was made under the name of specific supermarket-chains and only sold in their stores and never made for the export.
There was some more food from Thailand, too, but I don't remember, what. Instant noodle-soup maybe.

Btw.: do you can find North Korean produncts in your country? Last week I asked in the biggest Asia-supermarket in the Ruhr-Area - the only reaction by the Chinese owner and his Indian helper war pure bewilderment
No, nothing. They even haven't seen ever any DPRK-goods.

From my travelling-companion I've heard, that in Cambodia you can the schnapps, made by acorns, from North Korea.
I'll look for that. Next week our vacations to Cambodia and Vietnam will start

@ingo: There are or were North Korean restaurants in Cambodia, as well as other trade links. The late king Sihanouk was a close friend of Kim Il Sung and even spent some time living in Pyongyang.
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2007/03/15/dining-with-the-dear-leader/
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2007/10/31/odd-couple-the-royal-and-the-red/
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/01/10/rok-government-encouraging-dprk-restaurant-boycott/

Hot dog! Nice with the third green signal light with some kind of Chosongul (?) script

I have an answer from a member at the Lighting Gallery website from Australia about the Mercury Vapor lamp in the USS Pueblo that you posted it first. He says that is probably Soviet Union or Eastern Bloc made bulb. My guess that it was probably installed in the 1970's or the 1980's

Yes, I know. Two more Youtubes from there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdB6G0a0VTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6lWwjsYDrE&feature=related

I will try to convince my wife to go there with me (we have booked half-board), but until now she is still not a DPRK-fan...


@rjluna2: interesting to know that. But sorry, I cannot help with details. The guide-girl http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/233/img2096p.jpg/
didn't know more either.

About the history of the USS Pueblo: you know, that originally it was a civil freight-ship, built in 1944?

I have not seen any North Korean products here too.

Korean products (include TV series, movie and music) that visible or available here are from South only, I think.

-- Krit

Mine arrived yesterday. Thank you very much, Ingo! Romania is an obscure destination, probably this was the reason for which it arrived so late. I checked the mailbox today, not yesterday, because, when I saw it is something in it, I thought it is one of those irritating comercials (and it was that too), so I didn't bother to check. I said to myself: "Probably my address was on the notepad which Ingo forgot to take with him, otherwise my postcard would have arrived until now.". So I didn't bother to check my mailbox yesterday.

In the postcard, besides "La Maison Centrale de la Jeunesse" ("The central house of youth - wrote only in french, because english is, by definition, an imperialistic/capitalistic language ), a Volvo 144 and a GAZ 24-10 Volga appear. The stamps with the two north-korean soldiers who crush the enemy with their rifles butt and with the red Kalashnikov which has the bayonet pointed against the imperialist enemy are absolutely fabulous.