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A Year In Pyongyang

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:01:49 -0800

Pyongyang Rocks!

Yakuman — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:39:27 -0800

Pyongyang Rocks! If you are a band playing any kind of rock, including heavy metal, then you can participate in 'ROCK FOR PEACE' in North Korea. What a blast!

Rethinking Ryungyong

blahblahblah — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:16:45 -0800

The Ryungyong Hotel is a nearly 1,000 foot tall abandoned pyramid in the heart of Pyongyang that North Korea has officially tried to forget. [discussed previously here] The architecture magazine Domus had over 200 entries to a contest to repurpose the Ryungong, a similar project is also underway elsewhere on the web, though some architects think the effort is a bad idea. [For Domus, use:mefier/mefite]

Bush meets with NK gulag survivor / author

pandaharma — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:42:12 -0800

Today, Bush met with Kang Chol Hwan, a survivor of the North Korean prison camps and author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang, a book Bush has read and given to his staffers.

Haggis in Pyongyang

stonerose — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:50:04 -0800

"The haggis was pronounced excellent by all that ate it, foreigners and Koreans, including the Vice-Minister." A diplomat describes opening the British embassy in Pyongyang. Direct link (rtf) here.

I'm sure it goes well with Hennessy

pieoverdone — Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:52:41 -0800

We deliver to Pyongyang in 30 minutes or it's free. Well, not quite. But this is what happens when Kim Jong Il orders a pizza.

War Profiteering -- Ordained by Providence?

Ignatius J. Reilly — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:40:10 -0800

Former N. Korean Nuclear Contractors are "pretty sure that at some point Don was involved," since it was not unusual to seek help from board members "when we needed contacts with the U.S. government." An article in yesterday's Fortune mentions and quotes a number of former employees/contractors for a Swiss engineering firm -- headed by Donald Rumsfeld at the time that Pyongyang began getting its nuke on. Nevertheless, Today Rumsfeld, riding high after the Iraq war, is reportedly discussing a plan for "regime change" in North Korea. But his silence about the nuclear reactors raises questions about what he did--or didn't do--as an ABB director. unsurprisingly, the media is not exactly all over this.

The Pyongyang Metro

hama7 — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 04:35:19 -0800

The Pyongyang Metro.[more]

No, no! - Iraq's the REAL threat, sure Pyonyang will gnaw off a leg...

troutfishing — Sat, 01 Feb 2003 06:04:10 -0800

Pyongyang's crosshairs on US Capital "A propaganda poster released by North Korea depicts the country's struggle with the United States over the North's nuclear program." - poster shows North Korean soldier with large shells looking at Capital building crumbling from a large explosion. (NYT)

The world's most ominous building?

Pretty_Generic — Thu, 05 Dec 2002 04:50:58 -0800

The 300m (984ft) Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea isn't a hotel - it's a metaphor. (pictures, comparative diagram)