Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is reportedly a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri (Korean: 평화리; Hancha: 平和里),[1] Panmun-guyok,[a] Kaesong Special City, North Korea.
The North Korean government says the village contains a 200-family collective farm, serviced by a child care center, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools, and a hospital.
The town was oriented so that the bright blue roofs and multi-colored sides of the buildings next to the massive DPRK flag would be the most distinguishing features when viewed from across the border.
[10] Originally, the content extolled the North's virtues in great detail and urged disgruntled soldiers and farmers simply to walk across the border to be received as brothers.
[16] As its value in inducing defections diminished over time, particularly as South Korea caught up with the North economically in the 1960s and 1970s,[17] the content was switched to condemnatory anti-Western speeches, agitprop operas, and patriotic marching music for up to 20 hours a day.