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Arch of Triumph (Pyongyang)

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This article is about the monument in Pyongyang, North Korea. For other uses, see Arch of Triumph.

This is the biggest Arch of Triumph in the world. It is located in Pyongyang, and it commemorates the successful guerrilla warfare of Kim Il-sung against the Japanese army.

Arch of Triumph

Chosŏn'gŭl	개선문
Hancha	凱旋門
McCune-Reischauer	Kaesŏnmun
Revised Romanization	Gaeseonmun

The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang 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. 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 arch of triumph. Standing sixty meters high and fifty meters wide, it is a stone edifice piled up with over 10,500 pieces of finely-dressed white granite. 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, and 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. The Arch is always part of official North Korean tours for tourists and visitors.