What fucking fool in their right mind...... would want to waste money in north korea .....really a shitty ...... fucking ....... brainwashed nation of weak people ........ who cannot enjoy their bleak shitty life .....why would anyone want to work ......and take time off .......to go to a miserable shithole ...... ruled by a fucking psychopath .....
Really they offer nothing ........ but fucking shit life......... and total totalitarian control .........look at that guy .......who went there...... and took a poster .....oscar bedwarmer or fultimyer/or ottoman....or some strange name .......he took a poster...... and then ended up dead.....he came home from korea....and died ......not a great ad for a vacation ........i certainly have no inclination to go to a country ........that hates it's own people...... and eats dogs .....go figure ...... .....
Bleak images show snapshots of daily life in the closed world of North Korea
An AFP photographer captured rare shots showing everyday life in North Korea.
Pedro Pardo accessed a remote part of the border in China's Jilin province to get the photos.
`The images show a bleak picture of life in the completely isolated nation.
An AFP photographer captured rare images showing daily life in North Korea.
To get the photos, Pedro Pardo accessed a remote part of North Korea's border with China in the latter's Jilin province.
The images Pardo took between February 26 and March 1 offer a bleak yet fascinating look at life in a country shrouded in secrecy.
North Korea was founded in 1948 under Kim Il-sung as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), inspired by strict Marxist-Leninist principles.
Its population of roughly 26 million people lives largely in isolation from the rest of the world in the austere communist state, barred from going abroad without permission from the government and subjected to state-run media that blare propaganda praising the nation and its supreme leader, Kim Jong Un.
North Korea's self-imposed isolation is largely due to its guiding principle of "juche," or "self-reliance" — the idea that it should be able to function completely independently and remain separate from the rest of the world.
In practice, this has achieved little other than to stifle the country's economy and trade, and many of its citizens face high poverty levels and severe food shortages. The CIA says the country "remains one of the World's most isolated and one of Asia's poorest."
Since the 1950s, it is estimated that around 31,000 North Koreans have sought to escape and defected to South Korea, The Guardian reported in January.
That number surged last year amid what the unification ministry in Seoul called "worsening conditions in North Korea."
Pardo's photos present a unique look into those conditions and life in one of the world's last communist states.
North Korean soldiers working on the border.
The North Korean city of Hyesan.
A wagon in the North Korean city of Namyang.
A sign on a hillside in the town of Chunggang reads: "My country is the best."
A watchtower by the border in Hyesan.
Portraits of former North Korean leaders Kim Il sung and Kim Jong Il in Chunggang.
Another set of portraits of the former leaders on a government building in Namyang.
North Korean people working in a field.
A sign in Chunggang reading: "Let's unify the party and all society with the revolutionary ideas of comrade Kim Jong Un!"
Trucks crossing a border bridge connecting Changbai, China, and Hyesan, North Korea.
North Korea's tallest building is an abandoned hotel that has never hosted a single guest. Take a closer look at the 'Hotel of Doom.'
Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world.
Construction on the "Hotel of Doom" began in 1987 and has stopped and started several times.
One side of the 1,080-foot building has been outfitted with LED screens used for light shows.
At 1,080 feet, North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world.
The 105-story "Hotel of Doom," which is also North Korea's tallest building, has never hosted a single guest. Construction began almost 40 years ago, and it is not yet complete — the cost of finishing the building is estimated to be around 5% of the country's entire GDP.
Still, Ryugyong Hotel remains a subject of international fascination.
Here's the story behind the abandoned skyscraper that dominates the capital city's skyline.
Construction on the Ryugyong Hotel began in Pyongyang in 1987, but halted due to economic troubles in North Korea.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, North Korea lost its main trading partner and source of aid, spurring an economic crisis, CNN reported.
The hotel reached its full height in 1992, but the inside was never completed.
The Ryugyong Hotel is 105 stories tall and is sometimes referred to as the 105 Building.
To this day, it has never hosted a single guest.
Despite its aversion to foreign visitors, North Korea does have several functional hotels in Pyongyang. Until the Ryugyong Hotel is completed, the Yanggakdo International Hotel is the city's largest, and the Ryanggang Hotel is widely regarded as the fanciest.
Its pyramid shape dominates the Pyongyang skyline from miles away.
Each of the building's three sections, which join together at the top, are 100 meters, or 328 feet long, according to Atlas Obscura.
At the very top of the building, an eight-story cone-shaped section was supposed to feature revolving restaurants.
It remains empty, like the rest of the hotel.
More external work began on the hotel in 2008 with the installation of glass panels over its entire surface.
An Egyptian contractor, the Orascom group, took over the project and revived construction in 2008, Reuters reported.
It would cost an estimated $2 billion to finally finish the Ryugyong Hotel, Reuters reported in 2008, citing South Korean media.
North Korea's gross domestic product is around $40 billion, according to the most recent data on CIA's World Factbook. That makes the cost of finishing the building around 5% of the country's entire GDP.
In the meantime, North Korea has found other uses for the building.
Pyongyang celebrated May Day in 2009 with a fireworks display framing the Ryugyong Hotel.
It serves as a dramatic backdrop for arts troupes' performances.
The troupes' performances usually contain propaganda messages. North Korea sent an arts troupe to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
It also provides a backdrop for propaganda messages made up of over 100,000 LED screens.
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