The Ryongtong Temple in North Korea has enjoyed the third anniversary of its joint restoration. Pictures are here, courtesy of Reuters News Agency.
Restoration and Anniversary in North Korea
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Nice photo, but that’s the only good thing I can say about this. It’s just another sham act in the shadow theatre of inter-Korean relations.
I’m with sewing: While it would seem a great thing that the two sides of the Korean nation could get together to preserve and restore their common cultural heritage, we all may be certain that the construction contracting on this project included a lot of padding to enable still more South-North
tributetransfer payments to cover cognac and iPods for the regime.Brendon, don’t forget that South Korea probably deposited the salaries of the North Korean carpenters in a North Korean government bank account…That or the South Korean government brought their own and paid ridiculous fees, taxes, and surcharges on anything from toilet paper to the air they breathe.
…and guess who the North Koreans thanked for the completion of the project.
. . . and there are no monks in these pictures, just guys, with hair on their head, in robes.
That’s what got me thinking about it, actually…
See? This proves that there really is religious freedom in North Korea!
Still, it’s a pretty building, even if it is just a facade for the pro-nork’ers to point at whenever human rights groups criticize the KJI regime for supressing religious freedoms.
#7. Yes, they are free to worship the little troll.
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