North Korea's Baekdu Mountain has been designated a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Global Geopark. On the 10th (local time), the UNESCO Executive Board ...

1712 -- Korea's Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) government erects a stone monument on Mount Baekdu to mark the border with China, then ruled by the Qing Dynasty.

The Kim family legitimises their rule over the country, referring to the “Mount Baekdu Bloodline”. The mountain is also mentioned in the South Korean national anthem The country’s supreme ...

A screen adaptation of the novel by North Korean writer Yong Song. On the anti-Japanese partisan struggle of the Korean partisans in the 1930s.