Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum

The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum is located on the bank of the picturesque Pothong River in Pyongyang.

It was opened on July 27, Juche 102(2013) to mark the 60^th anniversary of victorious war.

It is a palace of victory built by the service personnel and people of Korea with their patriotic devotion under the energetic leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un to glorify for all ages the traditions and history of victory recorded by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il and achieve only victories forever.

The magnificent museum is perfect from the aspect of architectural beauty and formative art.

It was built in the vast area with the main theme sculpture “Victory” of the monument to Victorious War in front, carved in relief on it are the autograph of Marshal Kim Jong Un “Respect to Great Years” and the dates “1950-1953”, the years of war.

The museum consists of the main building which covers an area of 93 000m² and has a total floor space of 51 000m², open-air weaponry exhibition hall with an area of 6 840m², monument to victorious war and US armed spy ship “Pueblo”.

The museum and its area is an anti-imperialist, anti-US education base and a grand open-air museum.

Preserved there are 344 revolutionary relics, over 120 000 war remains and mementoes and data in their origin.

In the central hall of the main building there stands a colorful statue of Generalissimo Kim Il Sung acknowledging the enthusiastic cheers of Korean army and people on the square to celebrate war victory in July Juche 42(1953).

The halls and exhibition rooms on the underground floor and other three floors above the ground comprehensively show the exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il in the victorious war and the Songun revolution and the heroic fighting spirit and feats of the Korean service personnel and civilians.

On the first floor there are halls for the anti-Japanese armed struggle and for the building of regular armed forces.

The hall concerning war provocation shows the true nature of the US imperialists and the South Korean puppets who unleashed the aggressive war against the DPRK.

On the second floor there are halls for the immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung who organized and led the army and people with his outstanding military thoughts and strategies and tactics.

On display there are also large cycloramas, relief models, wax sculptures, photographs and remains vividly showing major battles in the war and the heroic feats of brave soldiers of the Korean People’s Army.

There are halls on the Chinese People’s Volunteers and on the world support.

Halls concerning the US barbarities and its defeat on the second floor exhibit materials showing the bestial atrocities by the US imperialists during the war and their defeat.

Halls on the third floor display materials of the struggle of different arms, services and specialized units of the People’s Army and the struggle of the civilian population in the rear.

A large panorama in the Taejon Hall linked with the main building vividly shows the victory of operation to liberate Taejon commanded by President Kim Il Sung.

In the museum there is the Hall for the Victorious Songun Revolution which comprehends leader Kim Jong Il’s immortal exploits in the Songun revolution to lead the anti-imperialist, anti-US confrontation for safeguarding the country and nation and socialism.

On the under ground floor there are rooms for introducing the history of the museum, reading war books and e-data, watching were films and meeting heroes.

In the open air there are the exhibition of merited weapons that performed exploits during the war and the exhibition of US weapons captured by the People’s Army.

On display there is the US armed spy ship “Pueblo” which was captured while committing espionages in the territorial waters of the DPRK.

The Monument to the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War erected in Juche 82(1993) to mark the 40^th anniversary of the victorious war covers the gate at the entrance and on both sides the monument to proposition of President Kim Il Sung, the monument to poem, a Party flag, and the colours, the main theme sculpture “Victory” at the end of the central axis opposite the gate and 10 sub-thematic sculptural groups on both sides before it.

The Fatherland Liberation War Museum is a centre of education in tradition of victory and a main base of anti-imperialist class education that inspire the Korean army and people with a firm will to emerge ever-victorious.