Museum to Commemorate US Aggression

Liaoning


With everything from statistics to shells, this comprehensive museum offers Chinese and North Korean perspectives on the war with the US-led UN forces (1950–53) – they take the view that they won it. There are good English captions here, which offer a thought-provoking alternative view to the west's. The adjacent North Korean War Memorial Column was built 53m high, symbolising the year the Korean War ended. A taxi to the museum costs ¥12 from downtown.


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