Every architecture bears the aesthetic signature of its epoch. The appearance of Pyongyang is particularly affected by this. The North Korean capital was almost completely destroyed after the Korean War and offered architects and urban planners the opportunity to build a model city of socialist architecture, coupled with the personality cult surrounding the founder of the state and his descendants. The international isolation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea led to a stagnation of construction activity and thus to the preservation of socialist building culture. Only in the last few years has a building boom oriented toward Asian metropolises set in, but it has not yet changed the closed cityscape of Pyongyang’s post-war modernism.