North Korea opened a zoo and nature museum in Pyongyang on Sunday (July 24).
Video provided to Reuters by the North’s official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, showed North Korean students and officials, including the state’s premier Pak Pong Ju and vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Choe Thae Bok, attending the opening ceremony of the central zoo and nature museum.
In the footage, North Korean visitors and foreign guests were seen looking around the museum and the zoo and taking photos.
“This is splendid and fantastic. It cannot be fully expressed by words. I felt a lot as I felt true love of our leader who set up this amazing central zoo. It’s hard to explain in a word or two,” Pyongyang citizen Yu Hyu Sim said.
KCNA said the 35,000-square-metre nature museum has the space hall, halls for Palaeozoic era to Cainozoic era, animals and plants halls and an e-library.
More than 40 sheds were set up for reptiles, monkeys, elephants, giraffes, horses and beasts at the zoo, KCNA added.
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