North Korea’s Greatest Folly

Dumb. North Korea has barely any tourism to fund it.

i bet its actually a missile base or an imperial cruiser xD

North Korea: Actually the Brotherhood of NOD in disguise.

well...at least it's stupider than china..for once...

The US space program consumed approximately 4% of GDP while it was active. Compared to that, building a huge hotel that doesn't get nearly the same amount of publicity.

It will be a marvelous sight, especially at night when the hotel lights shine alone upon the darkness of its vicinities.

NORTH KOREA THE BEST KOREA.

Your statement suggested that NK might be subsidized by the USSR.
That's unlikely, doubly so if China and Russia entered a territorial war.
But if that happened, China might invest in the NK military/economy.

the Soviets doomed NK when they stopped being a threat. And if that's what you were saying all along, I apologize.

I view this project as a good sign..

Maybe the two Koreas will rejoin faster than I thought..

'Imagine a prosperous China, with an educated, well-informed, home-owning, and well-traveled population engaged in a host of transactions with the rest of the world. Now imagine that this population is still ruled by a party with something like the monopoly of power and controls over behavior that exist today. The combination simply doesn’t compute.'

Communism is a great ideal, and in some cases it can even and has been established at a acceptable level..

but once a country becomes richer, selfishness spreads.. a well educated man will not consider a poor farmer as his equal..
and slowly the country becomes more democratic.. capitalism spreads..

Communism is just one of the possible earlier stages of civilization, and some could argue that it could be the final stage of human society.. but that is if we ever get there..

o hohoho hohohohoho..

This wouldn't have happened to North korea if the USSR was still alive..

Communism collapsed so... there you go.

lol "proper" anarchy. It doesn't exist(in reality) for a good reason. I'm sure we all would like to live in a world without advanced medical care, stable food production, live without technologies like computers & cellphones and go back to banging rocks together. Stick your ideals up your ass and grow up, kid.

It will be a miracle if they have a dozen rooms occupied

This is so so stupid >_>

heck! that thing looks apocalyptic! maybe is the Tower of Babel?

Just a very slight tremor, and that shit will collapse like a house of cards.

Communism can never achieve its intended goals because it is fundamentally flawed. It treats all human beings(the workers to be more precise) as responsible, hard working, diligent and patriotic people; which never were.

It does look like a giant missile silo. Maybe it splits in half like buildings did on NGE launches then back as a building again. But don't know if the rooms are protected from the rocket fire.

I can think of three reasons I'd never want to stay in that hotel.

1. It's in North Korea.
2. Likely is built to questionable safety standards and from even more questionable materials.
3. It's likely to be a target for a B2 in the near future.

In any case, it seems this grand spire might truly be North Korea’s greatest folly.

I guess if you ignore the fact they chose communism as their type of government.

Wrong fuck-face the ideologies of Socialism came first before Communism. Communism is Socialist principles applied to it. Learn to understand a book if you actually claimed to have picked one up, palsy. =)

You can check in, but you can never check out....

Actually, anyone except South Koreans, Americans and, I think but am not sure, Japanese can easily acquire a tourist visa for NK. Also Americans are permitted entrance during the "Mass Games".
They treat tourists reasonably well(by their standards) and the worst that can happen to you(if you screw up big time)is to be put on a first plane out of North Korea, for any other "minor offense"(like speaking against the "Leader")you will only get warned not to repeat it, but your "goverment minder" will pick up all the heat, as he is considered responsible for your actions.
They orchestrate entire tours to impress foreigners(again by their standards, as they think their country is paradise when compared to others), hence the inability to wander around unsupervised. Public opinion seems very important to them and the money isn't a waste either, so they encourage tourism in their showcase capital. Sadly what North Koreans don't understand is just how bleak Pyongyang is to us.

Worlds tallest ruin indeed

The world's last remaining dickhead state. But if we didn't have at least one it would be boring. I'm a fan of North Korea. It makes the USA's hawks look friendly.

omg it's a super death ray

You know that one episode of gundam 00's second season where the space elevator fell and almost killed a few million people...

That city is screwed unless they can lease a few gundams from japan >_>

Why does this remind me of the badguys tower from power rangers?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...the next HQ of the United Nations.
Think about it.

OK, lesboswede porn is a fucking (lol) brilliant investment. What the world needs more of is lesbian porn.

Who want to visit North korea anyway?!?

It loooks like shit.

good
they should concentrate on economy rather than military

At least the nazis built good stuff that could be used. In fact most buildings are still used today.

This monster is only good for postcards. Even if it'll be completed, nobody with half a brain will visit this forsaken country.

Knowing North Korea, it probably fires a missile or something.

This system has no way to work. First: in less then a month, it will hacked. Making an "open-to-world" program to let everyone cooperate to its growth is like saying to A WORLD OF HACKERS"hey you, please, why don't you try to hack this system and take control of my Nation?".

Second: even without hacking, is very easy to subdue others to vote for your idea or for you, by useing force or threats... since no one can check the status of someone voting.

Third: this system works assuming everyone has a computer for himself. If you are sharing your Pc with your mom, dad, or brother, your privacy is fucked up.. plus, no one can guarantee that the one voting is the mother, or the son... or maybe just the daddy using the accounts of everyone in the family to vot for what he likes.

And this is only the iceberg' top of the HUGE mass of issues of this system.

cut em a little slack... it takes a lot of resources for a poor country like north korea to build, furnish, and bug every room in that hotel.

I don't know why they want to Invest into a Hotel that looks like a Giant Blue Penis?

They might as well make Gambling legel in there country.

it's just like Atlas in Shangri-La

Stupid kids, it's so obvious this "hotel" is a missile silo
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-images-xxviii/ryugong-hotel-pyongyang-north-korea-7.jpg

last pic looks shopped

I don't think the North Koreans really wanted this thing; I think the ruler wanted this thing.

"HEY! LOOKEY HERE! SEE MAH DICK! THIS BUILDING IS MAH DICK! IT IS SO BIG!"

Norht Korea DOES have a visa waiver program, and they do use it. The North Korean border guards dragged a journalist on the China-side of the border, into North Korea.

The building itself looks pretty cool in the blue-glass-everywhere Photoshopped renditions. In its current state, it looks like an ugly, triangular prison (maybe it is).

If it collapses or is blown up, it might make a cool movie set.

It's not a secret hideout then?
The bad guys always live in the big pointy thing.

what is the point of building this hotel when no one is going to use it?

Thats still one of the coolest buildings i think ive ever seen. Its like something out of some fantasy world. Too bad there is nothing to do in NC except maybe tour the concentration camps and partake in family friendly fun day there, as well as sample fine North Korean delicacies such as grass