Taesongsan Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery () is a cemetery and memorial to the North Korean soldiers fighting for freedom and independence against Japanese rule. The 30-hectare site is located near the top of Mount Taesong (Taesongsan) in the Taesong-guyŏk, just outside

Pyongyang Pyongyang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution" (). Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. Accordi ...

, capital of North Korea. The cemetery with hundreds of tombs was completed in 1975 and in October 1985 was renovated and expanded. Its design inspired the design of two African cemeteries, National Heroes' Acre in

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and Heroes' Acre in

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The entrance to the cemetery is marked by a monumental gate in Korean style. Each of the

grave A grave is a location where a cadaver, dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is burial, buried or interred after a funeral. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of buria ...

s is provided with a

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...

bust. At the far end of the memorial there is a conspicuous red flag made of granite. Heo-nik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung (2012) covered the cemetery in their publication ''North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics'', noting the cemetery's significance in politics, where it can not only satisfy the North Korean need for revolutionary narratives, but also compensate for its large-scale absence of ordinary military cemeteries.

Notable people buried

Kim Jong-suk Kim Jong-suk (; 24 December 1917Suh Dae-sook. Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. – 22 September 1949) was a Korean revolutionary, anti-Japanese guerrilla, Communist activist, the first wi ...

, first wife of

Kim Il Sung Kim Il Sung (born Kim Song Ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he led as its first Supreme Leader (North Korean title), supreme leader from North Korea#Founding, its establishm ...

. * Kang Pan-sok, mother of Kim Il Sung. * Kim Ch'aek, general and politician. *

Nam Il Nam Il (5 June 1915 – 7 March 1976) was a Russian-born North Korean military officer and co-signer of the Korean Armistice Agreement. Biography Nam was born Yakov Petrovich Nam () probably in the Russian Far East. Due to a Soviet policy, Na ...

, general and politician. * Ri Yong-suk, politician. * Hyŏn Chun-hyŏk, politician.

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External links

Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt. Taesong (video)
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Naenara Naenara () is the official web portal of the North Korean government. History Naenara was the first website in North Korea, and was created in 1996. Usage Naenara carries publications such as '' The Pyongyang Times'', ' magazine, '' Korea ...

{{Use dmy dates, date=August 2024 Military history of Pyongyang Cemeteries in North Korea 1975 establishments in North Korea 20th-century architecture in North Korea * Cemeteries established in the 1970s

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Notable people buried

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