North Korea DPRK Tongil Aptos(by mthibau)

This is the Eleventh released item of the North Korea DPRK collection and it consists of quality Apartment Blocks at Tongil Street. It houses up to 677 people with a regular 87% quality flats. DPRK ministry of propaganda for Turism, a visit to Tongil Street, by Alek Sigley: "... While there we would walk down the street and soak in its architecture—it was lined with huge, monumental apartment blocks that had been built down the street in the late 80s as a part of a massive urban development project. Then we could check out the Tongil Market, the largest market in Pyongyang and the entire DPRK. We got a taxi from the front of the dormitory. The driver started taking us there but asked us: “Where is your interpreter?”. We explained that we were foreign students at Kim Il Sung University and thus didn’t have nor require interpreters. We were allowed to move around Pyongyang by ourselves without any need for accompaniment, I explained to him in Korean. After a phone call to his company, he said: “Alright, no problem. I just had to check”. The ride took quite a while, maybe twenty minutes, and took us to what is basically the other end of Pyongyang. It cost us about $7 USD (fuel is expensive due to international sanctions), which we paid in Korean won at the market exchange rate of about 8,000 won per $1 USD. After we’re issued our students cards we’ll be able to get the subway there, which costs only a token amount, but that is still a few weeks away. Passing the Taedong River we saw quite a few buildings under construction, including a whole new set of apartment blocks not far from Kim Il Sung Square. Together with Changchon Street, Mirae Scientists’ Street and some of the other urban redevelopment projects, these structures were already beginning to give central Pyongyang quite a distinctive and impressive skyline—not bad for a country under the heaviest sanctions in UN history. At about 11am we got out of our taxi in front of Tongil Market and found it was opening at