How did a small North Korean township look back in the late 1990s, in the already bygone era of the beloved Marshal Kim Jong Il?

Let us look at the layout of one particular place: the city of Hoeryong, located on the border with China (i.e. the northernmost part of North Korea).

To the outside world, the city is largely known for two reasons. First, it is the birthplace of Kim Jong Suk, the “Mother of Korea,” Kim Il Sung’s first wife and mother of his firstborn child, the future Generalissimo Kim Jong Il. She was born here in 1917,