damn thats sweet...but it shows the stupidity of the north korean gov't lol (funny how im not surprised though)

 

yeah North Korea seems like quite the place, pretty amazing waste of money right there.

for a good read, check out these photos http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=82755

the guy went on an official tour of the place, and took some "unofficial" pictures, some really revealing stuff in there.

Paul

 

wow those are some insane pictures...good photographer

 

Paul... That was an amazing summary of that visit to NK. Great link!

 

Must be a real great structure if the engineer who designed it couldnt even get the right materials to do it, hahaha Looks pretty ballin' though.

 

You just know that the entire engineering and construction company must be buried in a deep hole. The company that engineered and architected it hasnt built anything since then.

Hmmmmm

 

That building is simply amazing...that has to be one of (if not, the) tallest abandoned structure in the world.

I'd love to see photos of the inside of that thing.

 

http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=39038320&x=125735028&z=16&l=0&m=h

^ cool satalite photo of the building and the surrounding structures.

http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=38991537&x=125744051&z=18&l=0&m=h

^And their football stadium (doesn't look so hot :-( )

 

"North Korea have spent ~$750 million or 2% of the country's GDP on the Ryugyong Hotel."

Yeah, instead of food and electricity for their people.

 

I find North Korea to be absolutely fascinating. Kim Jong Il (and Kim Il Sung, his father and former leader) spends every bit of money he has on insane projects like the Ryugyong, the Arch of Triumph, Gijeong-dong flagpole, and Juche Tower while the people live in abject poverty, sometimes resorting to cannibalism just to survive. Even so, they are so brainwashed that they think the rest of the world is even worse. They don't know anything other than what the government tells them. Cell phones are banned, radios and TVs only tune to government stations, and any kind of free expression is forbidden. Question Dear Leader and your whole family wins a trip to the gulags.

They can't even make glass without waves and bubbles in it. The fact that the concrete in the Ryunyong is of such poor quality isn't surprising - North Korea probably can't even make concrete suitable for a building like that.

 

That building is interesting. I have a strange fondness for exploring old and/or abandonded buildings. I wonder what that one looks like on the inside, and if they left their tools there like the crane.

Thanks for that link Paul! Those pictures were something else. That takes one brave person to go in there and capture the real deal on camera without the government taking you out before you get out.

 

Those commies all need to be in a cement coffin!