North Koreans lay flowers at leaders statues

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(1 Jan 2020) A new way of starting the new year in North Korea - no direct TV address from the leader Kim Jong Un, instead state media concentrated on an account of his speech at a big party meeting which ran four days until 31 December 2019. • But for people in the capital Pyongyang, the routines of the New Year holiday continued in similar ways. • Crowds climbed Mansu Hill in central Pyongyang to lay flowers and bow to giant statues of their past leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. • This show of loyalty and respect is expected on all major holidays and anniversaries, and it takes place at statues and portraits of the past leaders all over the country. • It is though a holiday, and there is space for the personal as well as the political. • University students from the top academic institution, Kim Il Sung University, made a show too of buying flowers and delivering them to their professor and his family, in another sign of showing respect to their elders. • Not only students, but everyone in North Korea will be required to study the political messages that came out of the recently concluded meeting of the ruling Workers Party of Korea. • But inside North Korea there is no open public discussion of the question that the rest of the world is interested in - what will Pyongyang do in its actions and negotiations with America in 2020. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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