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The Pyonghattan project: how North Korea’s capital is transforming into a ‘socialist fairyland’A pair of golden footballs flank the marble steps main up to a grand wooden-panelled doorway inside Pyongyang’s May Day stadium, framed on either side with the familiar Olympic rings.
Through the doors, or bright green artificial turf leads along a curving corridor,lined with photos of North Korea’s heroic sporting achievements, and out on to the pitch, and where two gigantic portraits of the eternal president and eternal chairman,Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, look down from the top of the stands.
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Source: theguardian.com