North Korea Built a "World-Class" Hospital… with NO PATIENTS

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In this episode, we dissect the tragicomedy of North Korea’s most ambitious medical project: the Pyongyang General Hospital. Announced with glorious fanfare in early 2020 and hailed as a “world-class hospital” to be completed in just 200 days, this vanity project quickly became a concrete symbol of everything wrong with North Korea’s healthcare system… and its leadership. Kim Jong-un smiled at the groundbreaking, barked at his ministers mid-construction, and then simply stopped showing up. Five years later, the hospital stands mostly empty. No doctors. No patients. So who was it for? In a nation where healthcare is supposedly free but antibiotics are rarer than loyalty, that building is never a hospital. It is a political theater. Subscribe, unless you’re too busy building hospitals no one uses. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:53 A Gift for the Party 05:43 A Medical Utopia in 200 Days 08:06 Funding a “Free” Hospital 12:54 Delays and Denial 17:59 The Grand Opening 23:52 A Political Stage 28:38 A “Healthcare Revolution” 32:29 Healthcare for the Few 39:32 Final Thoughts