The water-filled crater of Mount Pinatubo.
Uluru, or Ayers Rock, is a massive sandstone monolith in the heart of the Northern Territory’s arid "Red Centre"
Workers sweep the ground in front of the Grand Monument, a bronze statue of Kim Il Sung, on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang. Kim Il Sung was the pseudonym for Kim Song Ju. Kim was born in Pyongi near Pyongyang in 1912. Kim and his family emigrated to Manchuria in the 1920s. In 1930 Kim founded the Korean Revolutionary Army, a guerrilla group that fought against the Japanese military. With the support of the Soviet Union and China, he became the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1948. In the post-Korean War years, Kim developed the idea of Juche, an ideology of self-reliance blended with Marxism thus creating a distinct "native" Korean communism. In1994, at the age of 82, Kim Il Sung died.
