[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33106310[/URL]
[QUOTE]If a major landmark were to catch fire in a city of [URL="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/North_Korea/2008_North_Korea_Census.pdf"]3.2m people[/URL], you would expect plenty of evidence to emerge on social media.
Such would be the case in Madrid, Addis Ababa or Nairobi - all of which have close to 3.2m residents.
But on Thursday, when a large hotel caught fire in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, no photographic evidence emerged.
More than a day later, that is still the case.
The fire reportedly hit the Koryo Hotel, which, at 143 metres (469 feet) is one of the tallest in Pyongyang.
It is where the basketball player Dennis Rodman stayed while visiting North Korea, and has hosted talks between North and South Korean officials.
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[QUOTE]But on Thursday, when a large hotel caught fire in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, no photographic evidence emerged.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6girfvz.png[/img]
On the frontpage of Imgur at the moment.
No one injured
Engineers killed.
For a moment I was worried it was good ol' Ryugyong.
[img]http://newfocusintl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/North-Korean-skyscraper.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=pentium;47947954]For a moment I was worried it was good ol' Ryugyong.
[img]http://newfocusintl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/North-Korean-skyscraper.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Isn't that one just a concrete shell with no internor? How can concrete catch fire???
[QUOTE=!LORD M!;47948043]Isn't that one just a concrete shell with no internor? How can concrete catch fire???[/QUOTE]
They finished it I think a year or two ago.
[QUOTE=MasterFen006;47948075]They finished it I think a year or two ago.[/QUOTE]
well it was supposed to open in 2013 and it still isn't open yet, don't think any pictures of the inside have been released since 2011 and it was very sparse at that time
Yeah it seems NK is trying to suppress any media of this going out, that photo on imgur is the only photo of it out there.
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