The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang (Korean: 개선문)

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The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang (Korean: 개선문) was built to commemorate the Korean resistance to Japan from 1925 to 1945. Built in 1982 on the Triumph Return Square at the foot of Moran Hill (모란봉) in the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang, the monument was built to honour and glorify President Kim Il-sung's role in the resistance against Japanese rule. Inaugurated on the occasion of his 70th birthday, each of its 25,500 blocks of finely-dressed white granite represent a day of his life up to that point. The structure is modelled after the Arc de Triomphe and was deliberately built to be slightly larger than the one in Paris. It is the world's tallest triumphal arch, standing sixty meters high and fifty meters wide. The arch has dozens of rooms, balustrades, observation platforms and elevators. It also has four vaulted gateways, each twenty-seven metres high, decorated with azalea carved in their girth. Inscribed in the Arch is the 'Song of General Kim Il-sung', a revolutionary hymn, the year 1925, when North Korean history states that Kim set out on the journey for national liberation and the year 1945, the end of World War II, which ended the Japanese occupation #70th_birthday #DPRK #end_of_World_War_II #Japanese_occupation #Korean_resistance_to_Japan #Moran_Hill_모란봉 #North_Korea #President_Kim_Ilsung #Pyongyang #rafael_duarte_pedro #rafael_pedro #resistance_against_Japanese