Hasta La Ideas

Speaking of world leaders, as we were in that last post, the next time you’re vacationing in North Korea, perhaps enjoying a stay in the never-going-to-be-finished Ryugyong Hotel, you might want to think about swinging over to the Jade Stream Pavilion, “the most famous restaurant in North Korea.” The Telegraph reports that the restaurant has just finished construction on a new 60,000 ft. addition, with its design overseen by Kim Jong-Il himself. The paper reports that Kim regularly stopped by to provide “on-site guidance” during the building, which will now make the restaurant available for many more thousands of visitors (assuming they have the money to pay for it). Here’s a bit:

Kim, who has recently elevated his third son, Kim Jong-un, to a key post in the country’s military commission, thus marking him out as his heir, said the new restaurant extension was “flawless in its architectural substance and style”. Although more than two million North Koreans are thought to have died of starvation in the 1990s, KCNA said it was the intention of the ruling Workers’ Party to “bring the level of the people’s diet and food culture to the highest level”

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