On Wednesday North Korea’s state-run news portal Uriminzokkiri posted a video of Kim Il Sung’s two pistols, believed to have been used by the Great Leader himself during his guerrilla campaign against Imperial Japan.
Now safely displayed inside the glass gallery of the Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang, these old guns bear more symbolic meaning for North Koreans than most realize.
On Wednesday North Korea’s state-run news portal Uriminzokkiri posted a video of Kim Il Sung’s two pistols, believed to have been used by the Great Leader himself during his guerrilla campaign against Imperial Japan.
Now safely displayed inside the glass gallery of the Fatherland Liberation War Museum in Pyongyang, these old guns bear more symbolic meaning for North Koreans than most realize.
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