Snow-capped Mt. Paekdu This undated photo, captured from North Korea’s weekly English newspaper The Pyongyang Times on Jan. 31, 2023, shows the sun rising over the snow-covered Mount Paekdu, located on the North Korean-Chinese border. For North Koreans, the volcanic mountain, the highest peak on the Korean Peninsula and a sacred site as the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s birthplace, is regarded as the home of their revolution. (Yonhap)
N.K. propaganda workers on pilgrimage to Mt. Paekdu Members of a propaganda unit of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party march in a long line on a study tour of Mount. Paekdu in this photo released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Dec. 11, 2019. The mountain is regarded by the North as a sacred place where the current leader’s late grandfather and state founder, Kim Il-sung, staged an anti-Japanese fight during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule. (Yonhap)
