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The Ryugyong Hotel: a North Korean poem

by Philip Gowman posted 29 Sep 2011 updated 4 Jul 2012
in North Korea | Light reading. < 1 minute read

The Ryugyong Hotel, now covered in glass

A North Korean poem:

Ryugyong Hotel
Now covered in glass
So Kim Jong-il
Can cover his as

tonishing policy myopia

(sorry, the last bit doesn’t quite scan)

via Aidan Foster-Carter

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