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News Kim Jong Un scales politically-symbolic Mount Paektu on horseback: state mediaKCNA hails visit as being of "weighty importance" for the country
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week scaled the country’s politically-symbolic Paektu Mountain, according to a report released Wednesday by the DPRK’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). According to the report, the DPRK leader climbed the mountain on a white horse and rode through what was described as the mountain’s first snowfall of the year. It was Kim Jong Un’s third visit to the fabled landmark — the highest peak on the Korean peninsula and hailed in North Korean propaganda as the birthplace of the DPRK leader’s father Kim Jong Il and the origin of the country’s revolutionary “Paektu” © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |