Word: kimilsungia
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...With its grandiose monuments and rows of orderly apartment blocks, Pyongyang looks impervious to any threat. At a flower exhibition consisting exclusively of a red begonia named after the Dear Leader (the Kimjongilia) and a purple orchid named after his father (the Kimilsungia), North Korean visitors gush about the joy of living in a workers' paradise. "Thanks to the wise guidance of the great leader, life has improved so much," a soldier assures us. That may be true for members of the privileged ? lite, of whom we catch glimpses as they are ferried around town in Mercedeses with tinted...
...midst of this rule-bound spartanism, every visiting foreigner is taken to see the showcases of "social construction": the Tower of the Juche (self-reliance) Idea, embellished with carvings of the kimilsungia flower; a 70-ft. bronze statue of the Great Leader, before which women mutter prayers; an Arch of Triumph larger than Paris' Arc de Triomphe. Subway stations are opulent, with fireworks-shaped chandeliers, granite pillars, 250-ft. mosaics, and marble passageways and platforms. Yet many of the imperial structures have a slightly wistful, wasteful air: the enormous 150,000-seat May First Stadium, built in the stillborn hope...
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