The Pyongyang Metro ( MTR ) ( P ' yŏngyang Chihach ' ŏl ) is the metro system in the North Korean capital Pyongyang.

Pyongyang Metro is the deepest metro in the world — the track is approximately 110 meters ( about 360 feet ) deep underground.

) The Pyongyang Metro has a museum devoted to its construction and history.

* Acronym of the Pyongyang Metro, North Korea

Accompanied by his guide, he visits the massive statue of Kim Il-sung, the Pyongyang Metro, the legation quarter, the Diplomatic Club ( former Romanian embassy ), the Arch of Triumph, the Juche Tower, the International Friendship Exhibition, the USS Pueblo, the enormous Ryugyong Hotel, the Taekwondo Hall, the Children's Palace, and the Museum of Imperialist Occupation.

International fixed line connections consist of a network connecting Pyongyang to Beijing and Moscow, and Chongjin to Vladivostok.

North Korea has two AM radio broadcasting networks, Pyongyang Broadcasting Station ( Radio Pyongyang ) and Korean Central Broadcasting Station, and one FM network, Pyongyang FM Broadcasting Station.

Japan's Fuji Television network reported that Kim's eldest son, Kim Jong-nam, traveled to Paris to hire a neurosurgeon for his father, and showed footage where the surgeon boarded flight CA121 bound for Pyongyang from Beijing on 24 October.

In 1972, the first formal summit meeting between Pyongyang and Seoul was held, but cautious talks did not lead much of anywhere and relations between the two Koreas continued down the path of hostility.

The unique aspect of Thimphu roads and the traffic control over the road net work is that it is one of the two national capitals in Asia that does not have traffic lights ( the other is Pyongyang, North Korea ).

Following a summit meeting in Pyongyang on June 13 – 15, 2000 between leaders of the two countries, the chairpersons of the Millennium Summit issued a statement welcoming their Joint Declaration as a breakthrough in bringing peace, stability, and reunification to the Korean peninsula.

The ordeal was finally resolved on August 4, when former U. S. President Bill Clinton arrived in Pyongyang in what he described as a " solely private mission " to secure the release of the two American journalists.

Perhaps the two most spectacular Thunderjet operations of the Korean War were the attacks on Toksan Dam about north of Pyongyang, and the Chasan Dam, a few miles to the east.

There is also the State Symphony Orchestra, the Sea of Blood Opera Company, two choruses, an orchestra and an ensemble dedicated to Isang Yun's compositions, all in Pyongyang.

Goguryeo, eventually the largest of the three kingdoms, had several capitals in alternation: two capitals in the upper Yalu area, and later Nangrang ( 樂浪: Lelang in Chinese ) which is now part of Pyongyang.

Since its articulation in 1998 by South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, the policy resulted in greater political contact between the two States and some historical moments for the Korean peninsula ; the two Korean summit meetings in Pyongyang ( June 2000 ) which broke ground with several high-profile business ventures, as well as brief meetings of separated family members.

In 2001 September, BAT invested $ 7. 1m in North Korean state-owned enterprise called the Korea Sogyong Trading Corporation, which employs 200 people in Pyongyang to produce up to two billion cigarettes a year.

Flights to Dalian, China, have been added to the Air Koryo schedule with a twice weekly Tu-134 flights from Pyongyang and direct services from Pyongyang to Shanghai Pudong have been inaugurated with a two weekly service via JS522 and returning on JS523 opened this year.

On 12 November 1986, the two North Korean agents traveled from Pyongyang, North Korea, on an airliner, to Moscow, Russian SFSR.

The three children of the Chimura family and the two children of the Hasuike family, who were born in North Korea, were allowed to rejoin their parents in Japan following the second visit of Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi to Pyongyang on May 22, 2004.

The venue was the main center for sports events in the city, and, along with the Kirim Stadium in Pyongyang, was one of the two venues used in the Gyeongseong-Pyongyang inter-city soccer tournament in the 1930s.

The hotel is located on Yanggakdo ( Yanggak Island ), two kilometers to the south-east of the center of Pyongyang, the nation's capital.

In the first visit to North Korea by a senior American official in over five years, Hill flew into Pyongyang on June 21, 2007 for a two day visit where he was warmly greeted by Ri Gun, the North's deputy nuclear negotiator at the airport.

Pyongyang documents Delisle's experiences in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, where he stayed for two months.

Pulse Code Modulation ( PCM ) lines and 6 automatic exchange stations from Pyongyang

Foreign visitors can link their computers to the Internet through international phone lines available in a few hotels in Pyongyang.

Defectors claimed that Kim had 17 different palaces and residences all over North Korea, including a private resort near Baekdu Mountain, a seaside lodge in the city of Wonsan, and a palace complex northeast of Pyongyang surrounded with multiple fence lines, bunkers and anti-aircraft batteries.

Some international lines ( notably the railway line linking Beijing to Pyongyang, North Korea ( DPRK ), amongst others ), also depart from this station.

The development of the system relied on reaching agreement with Quebec Hydro-Electric Commission to utilise their existing network of power poles supplying power to the Montreal Metro area.

The only public transportation within the city of Hobart is via a network of Metro Tasmania buses funded by

In Northern Ireland Ulsterbus provides the bus network, with its sister company Metro providing services in Belfast.

Shanghai Metro is the longest metro network in the world

* 2009 – At exactly 9: 09: 09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.

* Dubai-The red and green lines of the Dubai Metro network has already become operational, the blue and purple lines are under construction.

Traversing the course of the Marikina River is the Marikina Valley Fault System, part of the seismically active network of fault lines surrounding Metro Manila placing it at serious risk of earthquakes.

Solna is centrally located in the Stockholm urban area and is well served by the Stockholm public transport system with two commuter train stations and six Metro stations as well as a dense bus network run by SL.

Metro Detroit's regional sports network Fox Sports Detroit is located in Southfield on 11 Mile and Evergreen roads.

Each has a metro station on Rotterdam Metro line D ( Poortugaal station and Rhoon station ), which connects in eastern direction to Rotterdam and to the main railway network at Rotterdam Centraal railway station, and in western direction to Hoogvliet and Spijkenisse.

Since opening in 1976, the Metro network has grown to include five lines, 86 stations, and of track.

The Airedale Line, part of the Metro ( West Yorkshire ) railway network passes through Bingley.

The Canada Line, one of three existing lines of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit network, opened in August 2009, in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in the following February.

Lago station in the old Line S ( now Line 10 ( Madrid Metro ) | Line 10 ) is one of the few surface stations in the Metro network.

At the beginning of the nineties, control of the network was transferred to a public enterprise, Metro de Madrid.

Most of the current efforts of Madrid regional government are channeled towards the enlargement of the Metro network.

The network interchanges with the Euskotren Tranbia line, Metro Bilbao, Feve, Renfe and Cercanías services.

Byker Metro station ( the suburban rail network in Newcastle and the Tyne & Wear area ) and other landmarks in the real Byker ( such as the famous architecture that is the Byker Wall and surrounding estate ) are used for filming backdrops.

* Modern Times Group, quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, owns Viasat TV network and Metro International, which is the world's largest chain of free newspapers, publishing 57 daily Metro editions in 18 countries.

* Metro Trains Melbourne, the operator of the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia

* Metro Ethernet, a computer network based on the Ethernet standard and which covers a metropolitan area

Following completion of its acquisition of A & P Canada on August 15, 2005, after beating out Sobeys in a bidding war, Metro now has a network in Quebec and Ontario of 573 conventional and discount food stores, and 256 pharmacies.

The Bangkok Metro in Thailand is steadily expanding its network of underground MRT malls between far flung exits.