Thread by @BonicMichael

Kim Jong Un is on a mission to build thousands of new apartments in Pyongyang
The North Korean leader visited a luxury apartment complex construction site to emphasize his push for better housing
nknews.org/2021/04/kim-jo…

2/“After vowing to gift hundreds of new apartment units to North Korea’s finest teachers, writers and scientists by the end of the year, Kim Jong Un reportedly showed up at the complex’s construction site for a second time to show he’s serious about the project.

3/"On Thursday, North Korean state media reported that Kim visited the apartment grounds near Pyongyang’s Pothong River, an area that some experts say is among the most coveted neighborhoods in the country’s capital city. Kim Il-Gi, a senior researcher at the Institute for

4/"National Security Strategy (INSS), said that the 800 modern “terrace” apartments slated for this area would stand out symbolically as the first “model homes” in Kim Jong Un’s greater series of urban construction projects for Pyongyang…

Earlier this month, DPRK state media

5/"also reported that Kim Jong Un vowed to allocate a “large share of the total state budget” to building 10,000 “modern flats” in Pyongyang this year. At the time, Kim promised to build 70,000 homes in the capital city before Oct. 2025...

“The construction site of the 10,000

6/"flats planned is at the outskirts of Pyongyang … It’s for the general public,” he said. “But the area around the Pothong River, that’s the finest residential area where Kim Il Sung’s official residence was once located.”

According to North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun, the 800 to-

7/"be apartments are meant for “scientists, educators, writers and other working people who are devotedly working for the Party and the state.”"

definition of elite: "a select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society"

It strains

8/credulity how some analysts decry the fact the "800 modern “terrace” apartments slated for this area would stand out symbolically as the first “model homes”" are going to DPRK elite “scientists, educators, writers and other working people [devoted to] Party and the state.”

9/Socialist DPRK isn't like the US, where Biden is putting illegal immigrants up in hotels on the American taxpayer's dime while raising taxes on citizens. Nancy Pelosi eating her ice cream in her gated SF mansion if fine, but DPRK elite getting the fringe benefits of serving

10/their country is frowned upon? Give me a break. Anyone pointing the finger decrying the conditions in DPR Korea has 3 fingers pointing back at the US/UNSC led sanctions measures inflicted on the DPRK economy.