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1.44 Million People Visit King Tangun's Mausoleum

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 29 (KCNA) -- More than 1.44 million people including servicepersons of the Korean People's Army, working people of all walks of life and school youth and children visited King Tangun's Mausoleum over the last decade since it was rebuilt in the DPRK. King Tangun is the founding father of Kojoson (ancient Korea), the first state in Korean history.
    The mausoleum is situated on the ridge of a hill at the foot of Mt. Taebak in Munhung-ri, Kangdong County, Pyongyang City.
    The mausoleum covering an area of 45 hectares consists of the sections of the monument to the rebuilding of the mausoleum and stone human statues and the central section. It was rebuilt in a peculiar and grand style as befits the mausoleum of the founding father of the Korean nation in architectural point of view.
    Stone statues of the four sons of King Tangun and the subjects close to the king are standing on both sides of the stone steps leading up to the mausoleum of the central section and a stone table, a stone incense burner and stone sculptures of tigers are around the mausoleum on the platform.
    Erected at the four corners of the central section are four bronze dagger towers depicting the Pipha-shaped dagger, the symbolic weapon of Kojoson, and there are in the mausoleum room the remains of King Tangun and his wife and the king's portrait.
    Going round the section of the monument to the rebuilding of the mausoleum, the visitors deeply feel the patriotism of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il who found the founding father of the Korean nation and wisely guided the rebuilding of the mausoleum.
    Among the visitors were over 20,000 figures and people of all walks of life from south Korea, overseas compatriots and foreigners.
    South Koreans and overseas compatriots said in unison that the mausoleum was a national treasure pronounced in national character as it houses the remains of the king and has historical contents showing the developed cultur e and the political, economic and military might of Korea in the Tangun era.
    Foreigners from five continents including a FAO delegation and a delegation of the "Boat of Peace" of Japan, after going round the mausoleum, said with great admiration that it well represented the time-honored history, wisdom and spirit of the Korean nation.