Nuke geek Kim Jong Un has two skyscrapers built that look like his “most powerful” missiles
- Kim Jong-un has built two skyscrapers that look like two powerful rockets
- The two towers in Pyongyang were unveiled last week in the Hwasong district
Rocket-crazy Kim Jong-un has built two new skyscrapers that resemble his “most powerful” rockets in Pyongyang.
The two towers were unveiled last week in the new Hwasong district, which shares its name with North Korea’s Hwasong missile family.
And it seems the skyscrapers’ resemblance to the missile is no coincidence, with regime propaganda rags, the Rodong Sinmun, highlighting the resemblance throughout the pages.
It boasted, “The two tall residential houses rising side by side in the sky in Hwasong district resemble Hwasong missiles, the pride of our country, as the name suggests.”
The paper also compared the “height achieved by the Hwasong guns flying to the universe” with that of the “grand and beautiful scenery of the streets of Pyongyang.”
Missile-mad Kim Jong-un has ordered two new skyscrapers built in the new Hwasong district, which shares its name with North Korea’s Hwasong missile family
Kim Jong-un at the unveiling of the two rocket-shaped buildings just days after Kim debuted his new Hwasong-18 missile, which Pyongyang calls its “most powerful, most critical and most important defense.”
Earlier this week, the regime launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, identified as a Hwasongpho-17 (pictured)
Regime newsreel footage reveals the inside of a tower, showing party cadres in the well-stocked supermarket and the view from a new apartment.
It comes just days after Kim debuted his new Hwasong-18 missile, which Pyongyang calls its “most powerful, most critical and most important means of defense.”
The regime says the skyscrapers were built “for the people,” but with a growing number of North Koreans teetering on the brink of starvation, experts aren’t so sure.
Markus Bell, a research fellow at Australia’s La Trobe University, said: ‘Unilateral development has brought unequal benefits to the people of Pyongyang.
“The construction of these flashy ‘missile apartments’ will benefit North Korea’s most politically connected and wealthiest elite.
‘Ordinary people won’t be able to afford to live in these apartments, just as ordinary people can’t afford to live in Kensington and Chelsea, and Islington.
“Economically and materially, the construction of such showcase buildings does little or nothing to help mainstream North Koreans.”
People at the unveiling of the two new buildings, according to the propaganda state media Pen News
It seems the skyscrapers’ resemblance to the rocket is no coincidence, with regime propaganda rag the Rodong Sinmun highlighting the similarity in its pages
Dr. Bell, author of Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea, said the rocket-like design also contributed another reminder of the Kims to the Pyongyang skyline.
He said, “The missile program is a legacy project, the young leader inherited it from his father and his grandfather.
“The construction of these apartment blocks is symbolic in the ideological feedback loop that tells the country and, to a lesser extent, the world that the Kims are Korea and Korea is the Kims.”
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