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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

In pictures: New Pyongyang in winter

The East Yurtyzstan Technical University, New Pyongyang, one of several state-run science and engineering colleges established by Dr. Yurt Myaung-hye. Yurtyzstani universities usually serve primarily as venues for intellectual discussion while also granting researched degrees; the EYTU system focuses on vocational training programmes such as Urban Planning and Construction.


Footsteps leading into Yurtyzstani territory and down New Pyongyang's Saenuri Avenue, not yet cleared of snow. The street was named for Mao Zedong when Yurtyzstan was under single-party rule.


A residential yurt on the outskirts of town.













A small ancestral tribute; Yurtyzstan celebrates the solemn Snow Festival from December 21-28.
















The state-run New Pyongyang Cinderblock Foundry, where Yurtyzstanis purchase cinderblocks to adorn the doorways of yurts and serve as makeshift furnishings. The Foundry, despite its name, does not actually manufacture the blocks but rather distributes them from a cache which has existed since before the foundation of Yurtyzstan.

South End Market, partially cleared of snow and completely empty of merchants. The Yurtyzstani economy has remained mostly stagnant since the July governmental collapse, and the Snow Festival has further decreased economic activity for this week.



A photo looking towards New Pyongyang taken from the Taedong Creek riverbed in the New Taedong Kingdom. The land controlled by the New Taedong Kingdom had been held by Yurtyzstan after its capture from the Longhouse Kingdom during the Yurtyzstan-Longhouse War but was lost control of by the Yurtyzstani government following the July collapse.