[TigerLikesRooster]

This looks more like the last days of Ceausescu. In his last couple of years, Romania was threadbare and destitute, but he was embarking on mega building projects, tearing down old streets of Bucharest to make room for new big buildings.

Chia's current tyranny is said to be a reaction to catastrophic end of Ceausescu regime, which most resembled N. Korean regime in Europe. He wanted to make sure that he does not end up like Ceausescu. However, he is acting like Ceausescu in his last days, judging from his last ditch push for mega projects.

Despite his strenuous attempt to escape Ceausescu's fate, I hope Chia's end would be no different: one last Great Leap Forward, which would lead to total oblivion.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[ME-262]

"Under the current system, the only way the North will become a great nation by 2012 is in their dreams," Jeong said.
Foreign aid and a strong domestic push, however, will not be nearly enough to undo decades of economic mismanagement...

Thank God foreign investment in our treasuries and a strong domestic spending push isn't our plan!

Oops. My bad.

[bruinbirdman]

He might want to finish this by 2012

Infamous 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang begun in 1987

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