Current Affairs Iconic red and cream Prague trams get new lease of life in Pyongyang
The Prague Transport Authority announced on Tuesday that the first of twenty reconditioned trams would be shipped to North Korea this week. The North Korean government are paying about 13 million crowns – that’s just over 800,000 U.S. dollars - for the second-hand trams, one of Prague’s most instantly recognisable symbols. But as Rob Cameron reports, they’re not the first Czech trams to be sent abroad, and not even the first to be sent to North Korea.
Czech tram outside the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace in Pyongyang, photo: www.pyongyang-metro.com
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