Word: ryugyong
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night in the North's drab cities are grandiose statues of Kim Il Sung. Hospitals have no heat, no disinfectant, no anesthetic, no rubber gloves. Kim devotes nearly a third of North Korea's GDP to military spending, and finances ridiculous Pharaonic projects, such as the 105-story Ryugyong hotel that towers unfinished over Pyongyang...
...stricken people into the modern era. After years of extreme isolationism, Kim is letting go of the ideology of Juche?Self-Reliance?and easing toward economic and political engagement. The zone could prove to be another of North Korea's grandiose white elephants, like the 105-story, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel that towers, unfinished, over the Pyongyang skyline. But if it works, new ideas and fresh money could spill over the city's whitewashed walls and cascade across the country's brainwashed citizens. "Once this succeeds," says a confident Yang, the new chief executive of the Sinuiju SAR, "the whole...
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