Rungnado Stadium    other sites in Pyongyang     Pyongyang, North Korea

    Click to the left for a distant view from downtown

The Rungnado stadium is situated on Rungna Islet in the Taedong river.  It is designed to hold 150,000 visitors and is said to resemble either a flower or a dropped parachute.  This was the venue where Madeline Albright, Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, was feted during her official visit in 1999.

Bibliography:

All images copyright 2000 Dr. T. C. Kim

Pyongyang Review (no authors listed)
Foreign Language Publishing House.  Pyongyang.  1988

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