The Rebuilding of Pyongyang After the Korean War

Even though this may be North Korean propaganda, there is no doubt that Pyongyang was indeed badly devastated during the Korean War, and had eventually risen from the ashes of war.

According to Pyongyang Review (Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang, Korea 1995), "the airplanes of imperialist allied forces dropped bombs several times a day" during the War.

"Even under the shower of bombs the workers in the capital worked heroically in the spirit of building ten, a hundred or a thousand for every one the enemy destroyed."

"The US "generals" boosted that Korea had returned to the stone age and that Pyongyang no longer existed on the map."

During the war, the US reportedly carried out 1,431 "indiscriminate bombing raids" and dropped over 428,700 bombs during the three years of war lasting from 1950 to 1953. "This meant over one bomb per head of the citizens."

"Counting the large numbers of bombs which they had dropped, the warmongers in the White House boasted that Pyongyang would not be able to rise again, even in 100 years."

"Already in May 1951 when the war was at its height, a report of the international fact finding group who returned after inspecting the burning streets of Pyongyang said, "in fact, destruction is 100 per cent at present."

"Even our foreign friends said that it would be better to build a new capital in another place, rather than to clear away the debris of the destroyed city."

Regardless of the exact state of Pyongyang in the aftermath of the war, the country had not only rebuilt itself, but also built a fairly impressive city comprising of majestic buildings and magnificent monuments.