Frage zum Hyangsan-Chalet

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Das ursprüngliche Baujahr ist mir unbekannt, ebenfalls habe ich noch keine Aufnahme aus der Zeit vor 1994 gefunden, die zeigen würde, ob das Gebäude damals schon so prachtvoll war oder erst durch den Ausbau zum Mausoleum diese Ausmaße angenommen hat, weder im Westen noch in koreanischen Quellen findet man dazu etwas Genaues.

Im Jahr 2002 schrieb die Nachrichtenagentur KCNA über den Kumsusan Gedenkpalast:

Kumsusan Memorial Palace

Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The Kumsusan Memorial Palace, the sacred temple of Juche, is situated in the northeastern part of Pyongyang. The palace is a time-honoured holy place where President Kim Il Sung was energetically working for the Korean revolution and the world revolution for a long time.
The Kumsusan Assembly Hall was converted into the sacred temple of Juche and opened in Korea on July 8, Juche 84 (1995), the first anniversary of his death, according to the unanimous intention and desire of all the people to preserve him in state in perpetuity.
The palace was spruced up with ultra-modern scientific and technological successes with a view to keeping him lying in state as in his lifetime.
The grandeur of the sacred temple of Juche are embossed with a hall where his statue stands, a hall where he lies in state in perpetuity, a grand staircase 18 metres high, the mourning hall, a hall where a car used by him during the last period of his life and a train used during his field guidance are preserved and others.
Besides, there are an outside corridor nearly 1,000 metres long, a plaza of nearly 100,000 square meters, a granite fence hundreds of meters long, a stone gate, a thick forest grown for scenic beauty and an arboretum of 100 hectares.
The Kumsusan Memorial Palace is a product of the unbounded loyalty and noble moral obligation of leader Kim Jong Il to the president.
Kim Il Sung will always be alive in the hearts of humankind along with the sacred temple of Juche.