That is awesome, and also completely bonkers. You can see it very clearly on Google Maps, as well as these equally bonkers monuments in Pyongyang:
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/country/img/11626_Juche%20tower.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/o6/99/69099/1/79625159.H472eche.PYWorkers.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/3610136723_248fdccabc_z.jpg
This is an artist's impression of the Ryugyong Hotel, which sat unfinished for 16 years and is finally being completed this year:
http://www.nkeconwatch.com/nk-uploads/ryugyong.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
crap, one of the pics didn't work
http://brooklyneditions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/teun-voeten-NK_c12_t11_2004-16x24.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
nice
― the diary of anne's spanx (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
holy fuck
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
This link has some gorgeous photos of all that stuff: http://www.thierrycoulon.com/travel/north-korea/dprk-north-korea
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
btw the Juche Tower (that big-arse tower with the flame on top) symbolises Kim Il-sung's own crepey brand of Communism. Every night the whole city's power is cut but that tower remains lit.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 7 August 2011 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
a video that includes most of those monuments, as well as lots of singing and dancing children and bored commuters http://vimeo.com/9028586
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:28 (twelve years ago) link
That really is awesome (and also quite distressing).
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 7 August 2011 06:36 (twelve years ago) link
There was a recent Planet Money podcast about N. Korea's economy - apparently one of the few things that they actually produce for export are giant monuments for crazy dictators in other countries. The others are counterfeit US $100 bills and crystal meth.
― joygoat, Sunday, 7 August 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
wow
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 7 August 2011 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
breaking kim
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 August 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://i43.tower.com/images/mm107752406/super-flat-times-stories-matthew-derby-paperback-cover-art.jpg
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14465150
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
T-shirts are a common souvenir for fans at rock festivals
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
But, once washed, the design dissolves to reveal a message telling people to break with extremism.
Pretty big assumption these folks were making.
― ≝ (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://slices-of-life.com/2008/02/26/meet-maurice-tillet-the-real-world-shrek/http://i.imgur.com/Y1XMw.gif
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
wkiw
― dayo, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1jDiK.gif
― ?_? (markers), Friday, 12 August 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
Get closer:
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lozvsq0xYi1qfjjglo1_400.gif
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LStRxwN7hI (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 12 August 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.countrycalifornia.com/local-man-arrested-for-merchandise-tampering-at-area-walmart/
― jaxon, Friday, 12 August 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
flatt & smugs
― brownie, Friday, 12 August 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
^
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 August 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
Reported by “Trailer” Parkman of Farce the Music. Find more satirical articles in the Fake News archive.
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Friday, 12 August 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― brownie, Saturday, 13 August 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://handeyemagazine.com/content/paperwork-3d
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpwe32FCge1qz9e2ao1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1313602314&Signature=qI7qxVwJ18EcUDFrwhx3ks38cek%3D
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
I know. It took me a while so I'm p please with how it turned out.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
v good job
― markers, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
wait did you shop that erica
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
she painted it
― markers, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
attagirl
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
what the
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
tell us the story!!!
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKqxAmzjJig
Sir Bobby Charlton dancing to Beyoncé
― I for one am (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 18 August 2011 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
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― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 18 August 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU
― in a fractal nutshell (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 August 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
lool
― caek, Friday, 19 August 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/maxhattler/aanaatt
― Deverly (Bangelo), Friday, 19 August 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://ask.metafilter.com/194034/Help-us-eliminate-the-invisible-bear
― markers, Monday, 22 August 2011 08:31 (twelve years ago) link
that url
just
what
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 22 August 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
and yes, my screen name is named after a bear, so i am an expert...posted by fozzie33 at 7:31 PM on August 21 [9 favorites]
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 22 August 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
can't fault that logic bomb
― markers, Monday, 22 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HRdYCLZMqs
― jaxon, Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
next level
― markers, Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
love that he lights his guitar on fire
― jaxon, Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:49 (twelve years ago) link
so nonchalantly
― *steens furiHOOSly* (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 25 August 2011 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
america truly does have talent
― dozens, maybe even hundreds, of vagina related screen names (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 August 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link