Comments on: Former DPRK embassy to become hotel http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/04/04/former-dprk-embassy-to-become-hotel/ News and analysis of the North Korean economy Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:53:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: AlexOverseas http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/04/04/former-dprk-embassy-to-become-hotel/#comment-49294 AlexOverseas Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:04:33 +0000 http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/04/04/former-dprk-embassy-to-become-hotel/#comment-49294 Fascinating! I used to live in Cairo, and the DPRK embassy there is a wonderful, mouldering, "Sunset Boulevard" style mansion in what was once a very posh district (much of it nationlized after the 1952 revolution). We used to sit on a friend's balcony and watch the staff's weekend activities in the embassy's overgrown garden, which consisted entirely of playing volleyball, getting drunk, and then fighting. We also used to peer up the front walk into the sometimes half-open door; the lobby was dominated by a a large illuminated Great Leader/Dear Leader mural that often seemed, at night, the only source of light on the premises. It would make an atmospheric hotel, that's for sure... Fascinating! I used to live in Cairo, and the DPRK embassy there is a wonderful, mouldering, “Sunset Boulevard” style mansion in what was once a very posh district (much of it nationlized after the 1952 revolution). We used to sit on a friend’s balcony and watch the staff’s weekend activities in the embassy’s overgrown garden, which consisted entirely of playing volleyball, getting drunk, and then fighting. We also used to peer up the front walk into the sometimes half-open door; the lobby was dominated by a a large illuminated Great Leader/Dear Leader mural that often seemed, at night, the only source of light on the premises.

It would make an atmospheric hotel, that’s for sure…

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