Taschen Inside North Korea

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“Pastel Dreams” offers an unprecedented journey into the architectural heart of North Korea, the world’s most enigmatic nation. Guardian journalist and photographer Oliver Wainwright provides a rare inside look at Pyongyang’s grandiose and often surreal architectural landscape, from Soviet-era relics to the modern fantasies of Kim Jong Un’s regime.

This book unveils a side of North Korea rarely seen by the outside world. Wainwright captures the essence of Pyongyang, rebuilt from the ruins of the Korean War into a city embodying Kim Il Sung’s vision of a nation that is “national in form and socialist in content.” The capital, with its grand boulevards and monumental buildings, reflects a unique blend of Korean aesthetics and socialist ideals.

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