looks like something from star wars

magick

the Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang
looks like some evil fortress but apperently construction on it has been halted.

brings up a question, which is why does Ryugyong Hotel exist in the first place? Certainly it is not to meet North Korea's mounting tourist demand. The hotel was designed to have 3,000 rooms, yet if every single Pyongyang area visitor booked a weeklong stay, the hotel would still be hanging a vacancy sign on the front door, plus i doubt many ppl in north korea could afford it !


http://www.btinternet.com/~parrothouse/NHnkorearyugyonghotelpyongyang.jpg

TerrorFirmer

Haha, looks cool anyway....

DonkeyStyle \o/

It's clearly a nuclear missile silo... here take a look at our satelite survelance...

Terry

more star trek than star wars. it looks like a tholian ship.

Black Swan

Once the US finally gets its 35,000 troops out of South Korea, then just perhaps there will be a chance for a negotiated reunification between North and South (and such a hotel will then see use)? Maybe the UN could make itself useful for once and facilitate negotiations? It's obvious the US cannot solve it, as they have been there for over half a century without resolution (and are now stirring up more trouble under King George II with all his "axis of evil" talk).

Wertz

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

It's clearly a nuclear missile silo... here take a look at our satelite survelance...

You have no chance to survive.
Make your time.

DonkeyStyle \o/

/me takes off every "zig"

monkeyfudge

Somebody set us up the bomb!

Hobbes

magick wrote:

which is why does Ryugyong Hotel exist in the first place?

Quite a few can although the vast majority couldn't. Also while NK is closed to the world it is somewhat open to China.

Once the US finally gets its 35,000 troops out of South Korea, then just perhaps there will be a chance for a negotiated reunification between North and South

Never going to happen. At least not in the next generation or so.

Pigman II

magick wrote:

brings up a question, which is why does Ryugyong Hotel exist in the first place?

http://www.btinternet.com/~parrothouse/NHnkorearyugyonghotelpyongyang.jpg

Pyongyang also has the biggest football/athletics stadium in the world (the Rungnado May Day Stadium: 150,000 all-seater) so I'd reckon they just build these things as some kind of political statement.

monkeyfudge

Have you ever seen footage of there stadiums with all the syncronised card turning in the stands...? amazing looking stuff.

bonkey

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Once the US finally gets its 35,000 troops out of South Korea,

Lets not forget hte Swiss also have troops there.

No really. In the DMZ. Without weapons.

monkeyfudge

bonkey wrote:

Lets not forget hte Swiss also have troops there.

No really. In the DMZ. Without weapons.

Not even those little pocket knifes with the tool for getting stones out of horses hooves?

projectmayhem

you get to blow that building up in mercenaries (a ps2/xbox game)

pyramuid man

You gotta remember that this is a major business center of north Korea.
Its not just for tourists.