Access and Rules
Foreign visitors can access the palace only on Thursdays and Sundays. They must be on an official government tour. Photography, videotaping, smoking and talking are not permitted anywhere inside the palace.
Access to the building is via a subway (underpass) from a tram stop across the road. Upon entering the building, visitors (both foreigners and North Korean tourists) then have to leave everything except their wallets behind in a cloak room with a numbered ticket to claim them upon leaving. Visitors proceed along a series of long travelators. Finally they emerge in a long hall with a white stone statue of Kim bathed in soft red light around him. Marble arched columns line the hall. Visitors are told to stop at a yellow line on the floor, and after a few moments of contemplation, beckoned into another room. Here they are given a small speaker device, that plays a narration of the Korean peoples' grief when their Great Leader died. The room features bronze like busts of people grieving. Finally, visitors go up in a lift to the top floor in the white and grey marble walled building. They are filed through a dust blowing machine, and enter the room with the Great Leader's preserved remains lying in state. A red rope barrier runs around the transparent crystal sarcophagus. Visitors are sent in groups of four and are told to bow at the Great Leader's feet, to his right, and then left sides.
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