failure in progress

place your bets anyone? when will it collapse?

It'll collapse as soon as Kim Jong Il set his foot in the building

>>100286
Assuming he is still alive.

Wikipedia says something about a telecom company taking it over.

could you tell those of us who are unfamilliar, what the hotel of doom is?

>>100297
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

>>100297

tl;dr, when South Korea was about to host the Olympics, North Korea got jealous and began construction of the pictured monstrosity. It was to be the largest hotel in the world, but they ran out of money and the empty, concrete husk was left to stand for over 20 years. Now they're finally resuming it.

The cost to complete construction is estimated to be 10% of the entire annual output of the North Korean economy.

How do you think the North Koreans would spin the story if it did collapse?

I mean, you all know that we would know why, but what do you think they might say to their people?

It's quite weird that they make a gigantic hotel when they are pretty much closed for tourists.

>>100308
It will be America's fault, as usual.

>>100310
They don't always blame us anymore. They are back on South Korea again after their new president promised to be tougher with the North.

>>100308
"Certain enemies of the people infiltrated our glorious working groups and sabotaged the construction. These people have been caught and duly punished, some have seen the error of their ways and are begging to be let back in to the glorious utopia claiming to have been brainwashed by the foreign bourgeoisie."

Something like that.

>>100312
Pretty much the same
Japan and South Korea are America's vassals.

>>100314
That seems reasonable. You think Kim jong has bit it?

>>100320
Dunno, but I would fucking love a job making propoganda for those guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp7RkdvyDDI

NORTH KOREA IS BEST KOREA

oh my god.

Citizens we must make a chocolate pie because South Korea has decided to do so, but it must be bigger. And then we shall hold a national arms day for indulging on this pie that me make with our own hands!


oh hell yeah.

North Korea is an abhorrent perversion of everything the initial socialists once stood for, and is a sorry reminder of people's ability to be coerced completely by authority.

I hope, for their own sake and for the sake of our human heritage, that the North Koreans take their freedom and dignity back. A nation suffering from stockholm syndrome.

And don't get me started on that fat fuck Kim. He looks like a giant baby in that jump-suit of his. Creepy fuck, who knows what he does with his free time. I mean, if you had that kind of power what would you do? Think about that....Yeah, that's probably what he gets up to, creepy eh?

>>100335

Here's one of his hobbies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gippeumjo

>>100339
I FUCKING KNEW IT!

>>100339
Thats a helluva deal over in North Korea.

Nothing humanly illegal about it... no way..

>>100335
...and people thought Stalinism was the most contradictory thing you could associate with Marxism.

Seriously, hereditary leadership? What the fuck?

>>100000
wat wuz da get?

Sauce on resuming construction?

>>100335
KJI kind of reminds me of CWC.

>>100335

I'm glad someone took up the controversial stand against North Korea

>>100308

They treated it as if it simply didn't exist for 20 years. If it collapsed, it never would have existed.

>>100335
>North Korea is an abhorrent perversion of everything the initial socialists once stood for
Nah, it's what socialism eventually leads to.

>>100366
I can imagine the government wanting to make it look finished, as opposed to the concrete shell it is now, but wasn't the problem with this building that the concrete used simply isn't up to the job? It can support the building itself, but not a hotel filled with furniture and people.

Shame really, I like the design.

>>100459
Europe has plenty of socialist democracies that seem to function perfectly well. Conversely, Iraq is a democracy too right?

>>100459
Yeah, that's the opinion of the average retarded American who knows nothing about economics, politics and history let alone socialism, only the remnants of McCarthyist 'hurr durr kommunizm is evil' embedded in his meager mind. Thanks for sharing this with us.

I read the concrete was subpar and that bitch is gonna come down

>>100494
looks like somebody got trolled

>>100496
After reading through some other responses.

Consider:

Regardless of the quality of the brick (which I assure you is probably not great.)

The government only needs to make it look good. Is doesn't have to have any body in it. Just throw some windows up and some lights.

The people can then be told that it is restructured to its former glory. Make a mock up room, maybe photograph a constructed lobby full of "diplomats" and a shopped lovable Jongy with no date, and bam!

You've got a restored hotel that noone has ever stayed in.

>>100494

Enjoy your baseless egalitarian and corruptive economic approach, you burly poncho-wearing lesbian.

>>100499

Good point.

>>100499
I wouldn't discount that possibility, but I can't help but wonder if they are really just doing it for the show, or if it is a genuine attempt to do something useful with it.

>>100506
Yeah, that's capitalism.

Fun fact: Up until 1970's, North Korea was way better than the South economically, and didn't really become the disgusting exhibit of faggy failure it is until the advent of KJI.

>>100517

Oh really ? Then list me a socialist state, under any definition or ideology, that is highly prosperous or that maintains a high UN HDI...
The only Australians I see who are anti-capitalism are either poorly dressed, morose young virginal men or pig disgusting raging lesbians. 'nuff said.

>>100516
The only thing I could think of in terms of actually using it would be: it would actually be used by the upper crust military and party members.

Or, knowing it is a faulty piece of shit. Furnish it and have a random lottery that just wins people for a 5 day leave to enjoy "a wonderous hotel resort built by and for the people" but which will basically be a communist summer camp with hot meals and a hotel with the same luxuries as your average "fuck and sleep" motel here in amerifag land.

>>100527
fuck, you could even expect it to be tapped, so they can root out more dissidents.

>>100524
Are you genuinely perpetrating an "idea" with these retard-grade arguments? Seriously? I thought you were trolling originally.

Let me ask, where is the success of capitalism in Africa? Why is Cuba leagues beyond Haiti - and is better than USA, the richest country in the world, in terms of healthcare? Also I assume you didn't realize in your hissy-fit of extreme ignorance that the Soviet Union was second in the world before its collapse, and its GDP halved after capitalist restoration. In the nations which accumulated wealth through generations, there is success - for the rich. Of course, to perpetrate an ideal through such tired and idiotic "arguments" one must be very badly educated, which shows that you're in the class that is getting hosed, but you're too stupid to realize what's going on. Sad, I know.

>>100532
You can continue to argue without the sage.

>>100535
Why would I bother to seriously argue with a notion stemming from pure ignorance, one that wouldn't exist if the idiot was literate? Is it my duty to educate people over the internets? I was just being a dick.

>>100532
>Cuba
>better than the USA in terms of healthcare


Hahaha, oh wow. Good to know you can watch Michael Moore, bro. Would you rather have colon cancer in America or in Cuba? Why aren't there people traveling to Cuba for medical care, but people coming to many American hospitals to receive treatment.

>>100541
I would really just prefer to not have colon cancer.

>>100538
What I was saying was: This is a decent thread on the structure. I know you find the one poster particularly annoying, but you don't have to sage the topic as an additional way of being disgusted.

>>100541

Well, if I was rich I'd rather have colon cancer in America, but if I wasn't, I would be in debt for the rest of my life.

hmm what has Cuba to do with North Korea?

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