Souvenirs On Sale at Kim Il Sung’s Birth Home

Female salespeople clad in beautiful Hanbok, traditional clothing in Korea, sell souvenirs including drawings to South Korean tourists at the birth home of Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s late leader, in Mankyungdae, Pyongyang, North Korea, on June 29. In 2003, it was hard to imagine merchandise sales within the birth house.

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