The Fifth Floor of the Yanggakdo

The hotel staff know full well that foreigners love visiting the “secret” 5th floor. To get there just walk down from 6th or use the four service lifts behind the main lifts which go directly there. The propaganda there is no worse than you’ll see elsewhere in the DPRK.

There’s been pics on tripadvisor and so on for ages.

And what about the missing floors between the top of the hotel and the revolving restaurant – I guess that’s where they’re building a nuclear bomb – quick, someone go and look!

Sure the propaganda is definitely no worse than elsewhere in the DPRK, but the concentration and subject of it is something else.  You just don’t expect to see that !
Whats the situation on the top floor?
Does anyone know if the rumors about the Koryo were ever true? I.e, that there were hollow walls where spies could walk in back in the day?

OMG a staff only area of a hotel! Certainly these don’t exist in a capitalist society and is a sign that they are all living in 1984 totalitarianism!

Now I know why my guides concluded their day by disappearing into the hotel–and why their morning greeting in the lobby began after exiting the elevator.