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Bias[edit]

I find the language in this article very emotional and biased in favour of the North Korean System. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.195.14.174 (talk) 13:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Essential Facts[edit]

How about giving us some basic information like 'When was it built?' —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.129.163.56 (talk) 22:25, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mention of famine with reagrd to renovation cost[edit]

With relation to the cost of the renovation, I originallly added the passage "Despite hundreds of thousands starving to death in a famine at the time, it". This was removed User:Leo711 with the edit summary NPOV. I'm inclined to disagree with the assertion that the that the context of the famine is irrelevant to the cost. Some reports have suggested as many as 2m people died during this famine in the 1990s. At the same time the government of North Korea saw fit to spend >$100m (and as much as $900m) on a single building to house a corpse. The issue is that in governmental terms $100m isnt actually that much. To take a comparison the Scottish Parliament building is reported to have cost around $650m. Whilst many people regarded that as excessive, a key difference here is that a significant percentage of the Scottish population weren't starving to death at the time. Pit-yacker (talk) 19:05, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We need a single reliable source that connects the famine with the cost of the renovation. Without that, it is a wp:synthesis of sources, which is not permitted in Wikipedia. I removed the famine form the sentence about the cost. Vanjagenije (talk) 17:49, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Name of palace[edit]

I find the name "Palace of the Sun" intriguing. It sounds somewhat superstitious, or perhaps traditional Korean - not communist at all. Any information on the symbolism and origin of the name?203.184.41.226 (talk) 23:10, 8 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dimensions[edit]

Quoting the page:

"At 115,000 square feet (10,700 m2),[7] Kumsusan is the largest mausoleum dedicated to a Communist leader[8] and the only one to house the remains of multiple people. Some halls inside the building are up to 1 kilometre (3,300 ft) long.[7]"

The last claim seems less than credible. First, a single very narrow room 1000 meters long and 10 meters wide would already be nearly 10700 m2, the total area of the building given. Secondly, a cursory examination of a satellite image show the long edge of the building at less than 500 meters. -- D64 (talk) 00:57, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]