Wonsan Station is a passenger railway station located in Wonsan

Wonsan

Wŏnsan is a port city and naval base in southeastern North Korea. It is the capital of Kangwŏn Province. The population of the city is estimated to have been 331,000 in 2000. Notable people from Wŏnsan include Kim Ki Nam, diplomat and Secretary of the Workers' Party.- History :The original name of...

, North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

. It is on Kangwon Line

Kangwon Line

The Kangwon Line is a railway line in North Korea, running from Pyonggang to Kowon....

, formed from parts of the Gyeongwon Line

Gyeongwon Line

The Gyeongwon Line is a railway line serving northeastern Gyeonggi Province in South Korea. The line is operated by Korail. The name of the line came from Gyeongseong and Wonsan, the original terminus of the line in what is now North Korea.-History:The Gyeongwon line was opened along its full...

 which once connected Wonsan to Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

 but which is now divided by the Korean Demilitarized Zone

Korean Demilitarized Zone

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First station

The first station was built by the Japanese

Korea under Japanese rule

Korea was under Japanese rule as part of Japan's 35-year imperialist expansion . Japanese rule ended in 1945 shortly after the Japanese defeat in World War II....

 in central Wonsan in the early 1900s as a western-style brick edifice; however, it was destroyed during the US bombings of the Korean War

Korean War

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Reconstruction

When it was reconstructed afterwards, its location was moved to the city's outskirts, and it now receives Wonsan's passenger trains. The commercial freight is now sent to Kalma Station in the city's eastern industrial zones.

Museum

The original train station, reconstructed in 1975, is now a "revolutionary museum" as it was here that Kim Il-Sung

Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung was a Korean communist politician who led the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death...

 boarded a train to Pyongyang

Pyongyang

Pyongyang is the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea, and the largest city in the country. Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River and, according to preliminary results from the 2008 population census, has a population of 3,255,388. The city was...

after his return to Korea. In much the same way, the city's old customs building and a Japanese villa - both destroyed in the Korean War - were rebuilt as museums due to having Kim Il-Sung pass through them in the 1940s.