Week4 (Transportation 1) : The Main Means of Transportation

In North Korea, there are few motor vehicles for availability so railways are the principal means of transportation.

The basic railway pattern runs in north-south direction, roughly parallel to the coasts, with branch lines to the river valleys. Because of the high mountais, there is only one east-west railway line, between Pyongyang and Wonsan. The west-coast line runs from Kaesong near the South Korean border to Sinuiju on the Chinese border, connecting the major cities. From this main line a branch from Pyongyang southwestward to Nampo connects centres of machine building and foundries. Another lineruns northward from Pyongyang to Manpo on the Yalu River, connecting the western interior to China's northeastern provinces. The major railway on the east coast runs from Wonsan northward to Najin and continues to Namyang on the Chinese border. Several branch lines serve the in land areas and mining centres.

Finally, you can see this country is not prosperity. They still use railways in main transportation. All in all, North Korea's transportation is still stagnant.