Sonjuk Bridge in Kaesong Municipality - Part of World Cultural Heritage

 Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The Sonjuk Bridge is a stone bridge in the Koryo dynasty (918-1392), which is located in Sonjuk-dong, Kaesong Municipality, the DPRK.
The bridge is 8.35 meters long and 3.36 meters wide.
Its name was the Sonji Bridge.
On the bridge, Jong Mong Ju (1337-1392), a high-ranking official, competent military strategist and diplomat in the late Koryo dynasty era, was killed by the Ri Song Gye group who was trying to establish a new dynasty.
The bridge has been well known since his death on it.
It was renamed the Sonjuk Bridge because bamboo came up on the spot where he died.
In 1780, a descendant of Jong Mong Ju blocked the bridge with its stone parapet in order to prevent people from crossing it, and had a new stone bridge built beside it. This is still now preserved.
Beside the bridge is a stone monument "Sonjuk Bridge" inscribed by Han Ho, a good hand in the feudal Joson dynasty.
The Sonjuk Bridge is being protected and managed as a valuable relic showing the architecture and stone-dressing techniques in those days. -0-