# Pyongyang: "Worst Building in the History of Mankind" Gets a Face Lift **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 19, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663 "2009-09-19T00:03:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663/41 "2012-11-05T07:06:21Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > Needs anti-aliasing. HA! Why don’t they make it a prison. Don’t they need those or do they just execute everyone? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663/42 "2012-11-05T14:38:32Z")
What that building needs is more terrorists. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663/43 "2012-11-06T00:42:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > What that building needs is more terrorists. Explosives aren’t the answer to EVERY problem, but in this instance, I think Chiun would agree. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663/44 "2012-11-06T00:57:04Z")
Congratulations, Comrade. Rather than sending your entire family to the camps, we have decided to gift you with an apartment on the 83rd floor of the Ryugyong Hotel. Speak well of it and you will continue to live. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663/45 "2012-11-06T00:59:09Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Explosives aren’t the answer to EVERY problem, but in this instance, I think Chiun would agree. It’ll need a satellite dish so he can watch his soaps. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663/46 "2012-11-06T01:13:44Z")
I was hoping to see the same structure with christmas lights on it, but it actually looks kind of decent. I’m sure all the starving peasants will be happy to know where the national treasure is going. And haha that they only had enough money to put reflective glass on one side of the building. Also how fucked up is a nation of 22 million people if building a hotel can bankrupt you. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663/47 "2012-11-06T01:23:29Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It’ll need a satellite dish so he can watch his soaps. I love you people. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663/48 "2012-11-06T01:58:48Z")
Who is going to stay there? Foreigners visiting usually stay in a hotel on an island so they can be isolated. If it is in the city proper, how can they ever expect enough visitors to open the thing? [Here is the standard foreigner hotel, by the way.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanggakdo_International_Hotel) I saw a great video once of drunk foreigners running around the Yanggakdo hotel in boxers and playing ping pong while drunk. The N. Korean staff was clearly told…to totally ignore them. They just ran around yelling and no one cared. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pyongyang-worst-building-in-the-history-of-mankind-gets-a-face-lift/510663.md?page=2)