[2] The architectural style of the Tower is inspired by stone pagodas of premodern Korea.

At its base, there are reception rooms where videos explaining the tower's ideological importance are sometimes shown.

Associated with the tower is a 30-metre-high (98 ft) statue consisting of three idealised figures each holding a tool – a hammer (the worker); a sickle (the peasant); and a writing brush (the "working intellectual") – in a classic Stalinist-style reminiscent of the Soviet statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman.

There are also six smaller groups of figures, each 10 metres (33 ft) high, that symbolize other aspects of Juche ideology.

A wall carrying 82 friendship plaques from foreign supporters and Juche study groups forms part of the Tower.