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RUNGRADO 1ST OF MAY STADIUM - NORTH KOREA
24/05/2020

RUNGRADO 1ST OF MAY STADIUM - NORTH KOREA

RUNGRADO 1ST OF MAY STADIUM - NORTH KOREAIn the 1990s it was claimed that the former Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim ...
24/05/2020

RUNGRADO 1ST OF MAY STADIUM - NORTH KOREA
In the 1990s it was claimed that the former Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, picked up a golf club for the very first time at the opening of the Pyongyang Golf Complex. It contains North Korea’s only 18-hole golf course that has a par of 72. The Supreme Leader went on to shoot an incredible 38-under-par round of 34, of which eleven shots were holes-in-one.

Now far be it for us to suggest that the North Koreans make things up, but that does seem a slightly unlikely result for someone who has never played golf before to manage. As such, it’s entirely possible that the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium actually only has seating for about 150 people and the rest is made to appear larger thanks to an intelligent use of mirrors.

That’s probably not true, of course and the claim of a 150,000 capacity is a totally genuine one. As it’s located in the notoriously secretive North Korea details about the venue are difficult to come by, but what we do know is that it is, nominally, used for football matches for the likes of the North Korean national team. Mostly, though, it’s used to host things like the Arirang Festival, a gymnastics and artistic performance event. In the 1990s some members of the North Korean army who has been implicated in an attempt to assassinate Kim Jong-il were executed in a mass burning inside the ground, which is cheery.

The stadium’s capacity has remained steady ever since it opened, but the ground itself underwent a bit of a renovation between 2013 and 2015. As well as hosting the male and female North Korean football teams and the annual Arirang Festival, the stadium is also the start and end point of the Pyongyang Marathon.

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