Pyongyang Traffic Ladies honor their Great Leader

The Traffic Ladies(and some traffic men) visited the Mansudae Grand Monument in Pyongyang to lay flowers at the feet of the huge bronze statue of their Great Leader Kim Il Sung








http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_59396c770100092t.html

There are no words for what a bizzare society that is. Although as always, the Trafficgirls are quite fetching, no?

Bizarre sums it up the best we could in the english language....it's also a surreal megalomania at work. Just look at the last photo.

Scary

Expect 500 ft. tall statues of Obama to start appearing in our plazas and parks in the near future.

Mayor_of_Pyongyang wrote:

Expect 500 ft. tall statues of Obama to start appearing in our plazas and parks in the near future.

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2009/05/12/george-w-bush-statue

Sculpture of Obama As Jesus Causes Stir
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040201149.html

catcher22 wrote:

Sculpture of Obama As Jesus Causes Stir
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040201149.html

That's a 2 year old story about an artist's sculpture that was meant as a negative commentary about the Obama fervor - "In a lot of ways it's about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped."