Comments on: Recent Pictures from Pyongyang http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/ Wed, 23 May 2012 10:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: j lee http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69795 j lee Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:07:15 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69795 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. 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.

]]> By: kushibo http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69786 kushibo Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:49:49 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69786 D'oh! I meant that comment for a different post. No more commenting at 3:45 a.m. D’oh! I meant that comment for a different post. No more commenting at 3:45 a.m.

]]> By: kushibo http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69784 kushibo Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:47:16 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69784 The picture I included in <a href="http://kushibo.blogspot.com/2009/12/loose-change-for-december-9-2009-you.html" rel="nofollow">this "loose change" post</a> 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. 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.

]]> By: Joshua Stanton http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69780 Joshua Stanton Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:13:21 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69780 I've heard that they're just putting glass on the outside. I’ve heard that they’re just putting glass on the outside.

]]> By: 1972 http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69777 1972 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:46:06 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69777 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 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

]]> By: Michael Sheehan http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69768 Michael Sheehan Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:26:30 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69768 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 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

]]> By: DanB http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69767 DanB Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:47:51 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69767 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! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/koreaeconomicinstitute/4166660646/in/set-72157622831529547/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/koreaeconomicinstitute/4166660646/in/set-72157622831529547/</a> May not have time to make it through all the photos, so if anyone comes across other interesting bits, please point us to them. 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.

]]> By: Joshua Stanton http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69764 Joshua Stanton Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:16:56 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69764 Enzo, I don't have any information about that. Sorry. Enzo, I don’t have any information about that. Sorry.

]]> By: 1972 http://freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/comment-page-1/#comment-69762 1972 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:57:45 +0000 http://www.freekorea.us/2009/12/09/recent-pictures-from-pyongyang/#comment-69762 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. 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.

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