Recent Pictures from Pyongyang
Jack Pritchard, Scott Snyder, and other poobahs from the Korean Economic Institute have put up this Flick page of photographs from their recent visit to Pyongyang. Hat tip to a reader and friend.
Jack Pritchard, Scott Snyder, and other poobahs from the Korean Economic Institute have put up this Flick page of photographs from their recent visit to Pyongyang. Hat tip to a reader and friend.
Interesting to see Ryugyong Hotel almost finished.
Regards.
Enzo
P.S. Joshua, allow me to ask you for a post about available Western books in National Library in Pyongyang and the possibility to read them (for common people). I’m quite interested about that.
Enzo, I don’t have any information about that. Sorry.
The bit about luggage filling the seats in the back half of the plane because of so much cargo down below of course makes one wonder what the cargo was. But I never expected some sort of an answer! http://www.flickr.com/photos/koreaeconomicinstitute/4166660646/in/set-72157622831529547/
May not have time to make it through all the photos, so if anyone comes across other interesting bits, please point us to them.
Enzo,
Re: Your 5:57 pm
How do you define ‘finished’?
It may be nothing more than a cosmetic make-over, vice anything substantial.
Michael Sheehan
Hi everybody.
Joshua, thank you anyway. I’m trying to collect some informations by myself.
Michael, probably you’re right. Nobody knows what is there behind the facade.
At least the building looks a little less spectral than before.
Regards.
Enzo
I’ve heard that they’re just putting glass on the outside.
The picture I included in this “loose change” post shows most of the artworks, from a distance. Tomorrow morning I’ll try to find and link the news photo slideshow I found somewhere that shows some of the artworks in detail.
It’s routine daily living stuff on display, it appears. Their studio is sponsored by KJI and does make propaganda, reports say, but it’s not clear that the stuff in Australia is part of that.
I agree with you that it was ham-handed to ban the North Koreans themselves from entering the country while continuing to display their work.
D’oh! I meant that comment for a different post. No more commenting at 3:45 a.m.
Amazing pictures. I hope the Westerners taking the pix realize that they got the official version of daily life in NK.
I was also struck by how empty the roads were, even in the capital city.