Project ID: 98351

Government of China donates waxwork statue to Democratic People's Republic of Korea in April 2012

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

North Korea

Sector

Government and civil society (Code: 150)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Representational (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

OOF-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2010-10-16

Actual complete

2012-04-24

Description

In October 2010, a local newspaper in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea reported that China had agreed to donate a life-size wax statue of Kim Jong-sook to the DPRK as a gift. This gift would be created by the China Waxwork Museum for Great Figures, and was said to be shipped to the DPRK in December 2010. The statue was unveiled on April 24, 2012 at the International Friendship Exhibition House of the DPRK.

Number of official sources

0

Number of total sources

2

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of North Korea [Government Agency]