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...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 of a role as co-host of the 1988 Summer Olympics, for example; or the 20,000 new apartments along Kwangbok (liberation) Street that were built to accommodate foreigners but remain largely uninhabited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea In the Land of the Single Tune | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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