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North Korea unveils new 10,000-home showpiece residential district

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The high-rise neighborhood is part of a major construction drive in the capital, where residents’ quality of life is considerably higher than elsewhere in the impoverished country.

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By Oscar Holland and Will Ripley, CNN As North Korea slowly emerges from five years of self-imposed isolation due to the pandemic, a gleaming new high-rise neighborhood in the capital, Pyongyang, is taking center stage. Photos of the 10,000-apartment complex, released by the state-run KCNA news agency after the country's leader, Kim Jong Un, inspected the site Saturday, show residential skyscrapers extending from a wide boulevard in the new dist…

·Idaho Falls, United States
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While people are dying, Kim Jong-un presents a shiny new housing estate in North Korea. On telegraaf.nl you can read more about the doubts about the quality of the construction

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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North Korea has slowly begun to emerge from its five-year self-imposed isolation, ostensibly due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and now it wants to show the world that a residential district has emerged in the capital Pyongyang...

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CNN broke the news in Atlanta, United States on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
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