Does Pyongyang Have A Subway System?

Despite the widespread poverty that afflicts North Korea, the world's only Stalinist country, its capital city Pyongyang does have a developed subway (metro) system. The underground network consists of three lines, one of which is allegedly under construction, and an intercity railway line that cuts through the network. The Pyongyang subway does have a reputation of being the world's deepest underground rail network (at 120m below ground) and it may very well be the world's cheapest. It is believed that a single ticket costs 3 cents.

Like everything else in the DPRK, the Pyongyang metro is also affected by acute energy shortages and recent reports have claimed that the metro lines now only run at seven minute intervals, due to the lack of electricity. Most of the cars used by the metro system are antiquated and were produced either in China during the early 1970s, or in East Germany in 1978. The trains are coloured red and white, and the few foreign journalists who have been allowed into the metro system have observed that some of the cars still bore old, German signs from their use in Berlin.

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