Yanggakdo Hotel

Yanggakdo International Hotel in North Korea 🇰🇵 Secret 5th Floor fill up with propaganda posters and surveillance equipment to spy guest hotel rooms

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The fifth floor of the hotel has been a source of curiosity among foreigners because it is off-limits to hotel guests.

The elevators do not stop on the fifth floor; hence, there is no fifth-floor button on the elevator panel. The fifth floor has occasionally been visited "unofficially" via staircase by tourists exploring the hotel.

It is reported to be further split into two separate floors, with mostly locked rooms, and is decorated with propaganda posters.

Tourists have also reported seeing surveillance equipment apparently used to observe guests' rooms.

One Western travel agency specialising in tours of North Korea has described the fifth floor as "actually just a service level much like would be found in any hotel, and strictly off limits to tourists."

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Yanggakdo International Hotel in North Korea 🇰🇵 5th Floor fill up with propaganda posters.

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Yanggakdo International Hotel in North Korea 🇰🇵 5th Floor surveillance equipment apparently used to observe guests' rooms.

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This one was the creepiest.

Translation: "This bomb is the product of the Americans. Every product of the Americans is our enemy. Get revenge a thousand hundred times against the Americans."

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Translation: "Let's prepare thoroughly in order to defeat the invaders" (Red); ''The Japanese invaders slaughtered innocent, law-abiding citizens" (blue); "1,000,000 slaughtered/killed; 6,000,000 forced arrests; 2,000,000 sex slaves"

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Translation: "The 21st century is the age of information (communications) industry"

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Translation on the left side: "military first politics" Bottom two words: "leadership." Right side: "powerful nation"

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Translation: "We miss our Father, the General."

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Translation: "Our General is the best."

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Yanggakdo International Hotel in North Korea 🇰🇵

The fifth floor of the hotel has been a source of curiosity among foreigners because it is off-limits to hotel guests.

The elevators do not stop on the fifth floor; hence, there is no fifth-floor button on the elevator panel.

The fifth floor has occasionally been visited "unofficially" via staircase by tourists exploring the hotel.

It is reported to be further split into two separate floors, with mostly locked rooms, and is decorated with propaganda posters.

Tourists have also reported seeing surveillance equipment apparently used to observe guests' rooms.

One Western travel agency specialising in tours of North Korea has described the fifth floor as "actually just a service level much like would be found in any hotel, and strictly off limits to tourists."

[yanggakdohotel]

The fifth floor of the hotel has been a source of curiosity among foreigners because it is off-limits to hotel guests.

The elevators do not stop on the fifth floor; hence, there is no fifth-floor button on the elevator panel.

The fifth floor has occasionally been visited "unofficially" via staircase by tourists exploring the hotel.

It is reported to be further split into two separate floors, with mostly locked rooms, and is decorated with propaganda posters.

Tourists have also reported seeing surveillance equipment apparently used to observe guests' rooms.

One Western travel agency specialising in tours of North Korea has described the fifth floor as "actually just a service level much like would be found in any hotel, and strictly off limits to tourists."