A Hundred Metres Under Pyongyang
For years, one of the strangest stories about North Korea claimed that Pyongyang’s metro wasn’t really a metro at all — just two elaborately decorated stations, a shuttle train and passengers playing their part.
The theory was wrong.
In this episode of ExplWorld, we descend roughly a hundred metres beneath Pyongyang to look at the real system behind the myth: sixteen stations, Cold War-era blast doors, monumental mosaics, second-hand trains from Berlin and a railway designed partly to function as a civil-defence shelter.
But the deeper story is about information.
How did a false theory…
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