Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:05:55 +0200https://english.radio.cz/iconic-red-and-cream-prague-trams-get-new-lease-life-pyongyang-8596392© 2026 Radio Prague International The Prague Transport Authority announced on Tuesday that the first of twenty reconditioned trams would be shipped to North Korea this week. The North Korean government are paying about 13 million crowns – that’s just over 800,000 U.S. dollars - for the second-hand trams, one of Prague’s most instantly recognisable symbols. But as Rob Cameron reports, they’re not the first Czech trams to be sent abroad, and not even the first to be sent to North Korea. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/tramvaj_pyongyang2.jpg?timestamp=1591372751 https://english.radio.cz/iconic-red-and-cream-prague-trams-get-new-lease-life-pyongyang-8596392 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9