Victory Day and Liberation Day in North Korea, 1953

By Koryo Tours

Photographs from July-August 1953 from a Chinese newspaper at the time.

Today is the Liberation Day (8.15) holiday in North Korea, the holiday marking the end of Japanese colonial rule in Korea following World War II. Today marks the 74th year of independence.

Today we bring you some photos Victory Day (7.27) and Liberation Day in 1953 from Chinese newspaper at the time. We only have these scraps saved from the original paper, so we don’t know which one!

The captions below each photo were originally written in traditional Chinese characters.

Armistice Commission talks held at Panmunjom on the morning of 28 July 1953, the first day following the ceasefire, at 11:00 AM. Photo by Qian Si Jie.

Exchange of armistice documents at Panmunjom on 29 July 1953. Photo by Qian Si Jie.

Conference on the Singing of the Korean War Armistice held on 29 July 1953 in Beijing. Photo by Qi Guan Shan.

North Korean sailors of the Korean People's Army on parade in Pyongyang on 15 August 1953 in Pyongyang. Photo by Meng Zhao Rui.

Korean People's Army T-34 tanks on parade in Pyongyang on 15 August 1953. The original photo was taken by Hong Feng.

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