Pyongyang Tours - The Arch of Triumph commemorates Predisent Kim Il Sung's return home after Korea was liberated from Japan in 1945. The figures 1925 and 1945 are inscribed on the arch to mark the year Kim Il Sung left Korea to fight to liberated the country and the year he returned back from China. Also inscribed are the words "Song of General Kim Il Sung." This arch is taller than that of Paris, standing at 60 metres (the arch gateway being 27 metres high) and with a width of 52.5 metres. It was unveiled in 1982 on the occasion of Kim Il Sung's 70 th birthday and it made of well cut granite blocks.