Yearbook 2007
North Korea. According to CountryAAH, Pyongyang is the capital city of North Korea. Several steps towards a solution to the international conflict surrounding North Korea’s nuclear weapons program were taken during the year. In February, new so-called six-party talks in Beijing led to the regime in Pyongyang promising to close the nuclear reactor in Yongbyon within 60 days and then to close other plants for the production of weapons use plutonium. In addition, IAEA nuclear inspectors would be given access to Yongbyon to monitor the closure. North Korea, for his part, would get fuel oil and other financial aid. The United States pledged to begin normalizing diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, removing North Korea from the list of countries that support terrorism, and removing trade sanctions against the country. South Korea promised continued fuel and food shipments.
In March, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei was allowed to visit North Korea for the first time in five years, and in June the inspectors came. After an initial supply of fuel oil arrived in N. from South Korea in July, Pyongyang announced that Yongbyon had been closed, which was confirmed by the IAEA on site at the plant.
- According to abbreviationfinder: KP is the 2-letter acronym for the country of North Korea.
During new six-party talks in September, it was decided that the entire Yongbyon plant would be dismantled and rendered unusable before the end of the year. The work was to be led by US technical experts, who traveled to North Korea in October. The US promised the equivalent of $ 25 million in aid in the form of fuel. Later in the fall, North Korea also promised to render three more nuclear power plants unusable as well as publish their entire nuclear weapons program before the end of the year.
By the end of the year, the work to dismantle the nuclear power plants had not yet been completed, but the US engineers announced that it was solely due to technical problems. Nor has North Korea published its nuclear weapons program, which has led to great disappointment among the nations involved. No explanation for the delay came from Pyongyang.
As part of the sluggish peace process between North Korea and South Korea, the first summit between the two countries was held in October since the historic meeting in 2000. Present this time was North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Il and South Korea’s president Roh Moo Hyun. Among other things, the countries decided to work for a permanent and formal peace and to resolve all conflicts between them. In May, a symbolic initiative for reconciliation had been taken as train journeys were made in both directions across the demilitarized zone which forms a border between the countries. It was the first train trip across the “border” since 1950 when the Korean War broke out. Technically, North Korea and South Korea have been at war with each other since the end of the war in 1953 because peace agreements have not yet been concluded.
Another success in the peace process came in November when North Korea and South Korea’s prime ministers met in Seoul for the first time in 15 years. It was then decided that regular freight traffic by train from South Korea to North Korea would be initiated, which happened on December 11.
North Korea weather in March, April and May
Average daily temperatures between 7 ° C and 23 ° C can be expected over the next three months. It gets warmest in May in Pyongyang, while March is noticeably cooler in Wonsan. Temperatures in Pyongyang are between 8 and 23 ° C and in Wonsan between 7 and 21 ° C.
Do you want to go on a beach holiday? The water temperatures are in March, April and May 3-12 ° C. So the weather is not suitable for swimming.
In the period from March to May, the sun shines an average of 7 to 8 hours a day. The sunniest weather is in April in Pyongyang, but with a little less sun you will have to get along in March.
Pyongyang
Pyongyang, P’yŏngyang, capital of North Korea; 3. 4 million residents (2012). The city is the country’s dominant industrial center with extensive heavy industry, among others. a. Steel plant, chemical industry and manufacture of machinery and transport equipment and also large textile industry. A large port is located in Nampo, about 50 km southwest of the capital. Pyongyang is also the most important hub for all aspects of North Korean social and cultural life.
Large parts of the city were destroyed during the Korean War (1950–53). It was rebuilt with Soviet and Chinese aid, which is reflected in the cityscape. Prominent are wide, almost traffic-empty parades and monumental buildings, several on a gigantic scale. They are symbols of ideology and many depict Kim Il Sung, the leader for many years. In Pyongyang there is a sports arena with space for 150,000 people and extensive gatherings for mass parades. In the city there is also the country’s only metro.
P. , which has been an important political and cultural center ever since the older Choson period (first millennium BC), was the capital of Koguryo 427-668 and regained its position as capital in connection with the proclamation of North Korea in 1948.