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News North Korea manufacturing new trolleybuses domesticallyKCTV footage shows production processes, though the trolleybuses not overly high-tech
North Korea is manufacturing new trolleybuses domestically, according to footage from the state run Korean Central Television (KCTV). The video shows several stages of the production and assembly at the Pyongyang Trolleybus Plant, ending with one of the new buses moving through the streets of Pyongyang. The announcer says that increasing production at the plant is a consequence of the DPRK’s current economic models. “With this financial plan that we are taking, we can achieve realistic economic outputs by introducing our state-of-the-art equipment improving the performance of Pyongyang’s trolleybuses,” the KCTV article says. New model buses appear to be slowly © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |