Inside the North Korean museum in Siem Reap
For more than a year, mystery has shrouded a museum in Siem Reap. The facts have been few and the details sparse. What’s known is that a North Korean company invested about $10 million for construction, and that artists from the hermit kingdom flew in to paint and sculpt. But what exactly they were planning remained uncertain. Officials provided boilerplate descriptions, and journalists who visited the site during the construction stage were waved away or barred from entering. Restrictions, however, seem to have eased, and on a recent visit, a Post reporter got a glimpse of what’s being called the Grand Panorama Museum. ...
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