The Hotel of Doom
Posted on 07/23/2008 5:53:56 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Rooms with a view are built over changing North Korean capital
Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor
It is one of history’s great architectural white elephants, a monument to the ambitions of a dictatorship that became a symbol of its incompetence and self-delusion. However, the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, the biggest construction site in the world, is to be finished as part of an effort to rejuvenate the country’s capital, Pyongyang.
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I’d have to be so drunk to decide to go in there, I don’t think I’d be able to walk in.
MUCHO SOJU!
When you can spot substandard concrete at 200 yards or so, it's really bad!
I don't believe I'd want to be within that distance of the place. It might fall down.
So many Team America World Police jokes...so little time...
“Contemplate this in The Hotel of Woe”.
One of the things I read years ago about this project was that the NKs could not make the windows themselves. I know such window glass is normally impact resistant and not the simplest, but apparently, they have not even perfected the art of simple glass making and windows throughout the rest of NK are full of air bubbles.
His peasants eat dirt for food and he spends 2 billion for that monstrosity. Disgusting.
Shrek: “Do you think he’s maybe compensating for something?”
yitbos
You can’t pay me enough to stay at that hotel
I doubt that hotel going be adveriste by Capt KIRK ON Priceline.com LOL!
You got a point there PB
An eery, spooky, one-roof Potemkin Village.
You know what I think anybody who stay in NORTH Korea hotel got be drunk or just high
We should have hit this ship and blown it out of the water 25 years ago.
“I said SOUTH Korea, SOUTH! No wonder this vacation package was so cheap.”
Hotel of Doom with a fine view of USS Pueblo (AGER-2)still a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. :
Why was that ship not vaporised a long time ago. A huge crater and some metal shards would be a more fitting end.
Two harpoon missiles from well within international waters. It’s still our ship, we can do what we want with it. I still think it’s a disgrace that we didn’t rescue it during its foray into international waters during Clinton’s reign.
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