‘Pyongyang is exclusively for the privileged’

An interior view of Pyongyang Sanwon, the top maternity hospital in North Korea, where the floor and pillars are decorated colorfully with marble (left photo). An exterior look of Pyongyang Sanwon, which was pictured in June 2000 (top photo). The 13-story building was built in land measuring 60,000 sq. meters. People’s Digest, a monthly magazine published by China’s official state newspaper People’s Daily, criticized Pyongyang Sanwon as a facility exclusively for the privileged social class.