A few weeks after the berlin wall started coming down in 1989 north korean leader kim il sung said in a new year s address that seoul had built a massive concrete wall to divide the two states.
North korea concrete wall.
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Footage on state broadcaster kctv earlier in the week showed bridges and concrete walls in kangwon province destroyed by high flood waters.
According to north korea between 1977 and 1979 the south korean and united states authorities constructed a concrete wall along the dmz.
During a visit to north korea i was taken to view this seemingly undocumented wall.
As the tale goes spanning the entirety of the korean demilitarized zone dmz sits the concrete wall a barrier built by south korea to split the korean peninsula in half segregating north korea into isolation and preventing reunification.
The officer will explain the north korean point of view that a large wall standing between 5m and 8m high was built by south koreans aided and abetted of course by the united states from 1977 until 1979 across the entire dmz.
Primitive hoists for transporting concrete slab edges being cast after main wall casting with no reinforcing bar evident the complex which opened in june 2012 is made up of three 47 floor.
A must visit when in north korea.
The wall that at first you might laugh at as just a wall has shaped in me a great respect for the north korean architects.