Mount Paektu
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Mount Paektu or Mount Baekdu is an active stratovolcano on the Chinese–North Korean border. In China, it is known as Changbai Mountain. At 2,744 m, it is the tallest mountain in North Korea and Northe
The summit caldera of Mount Paektu, with Heaven Lake
Mount Paektu, April 2003
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Mount Changbai Visitor Center
Kim Jong Il
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Kim Jong Il was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011. Posthumously, Kim
Mount Paektu
…later communist guerrillas during the Korean War. Kim Il Sung organized his resistance against the Japanese forces there, and North Korea claims that Kim Jong Il was born there, although records outside of North Korea suggest that he was born in the Soviet Union. The peak has been featured on the state emblem…
Kim in 2000
Kim Jong Il in 1947, at the age of six
Idealized portrait of Kim Jong Il
North Koreans bowing to the statues of Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument