againstagamemnon:

The Ryugyong Hotel; Pyongyang, North Korea. It was intended to be a testament to the power, pride, and ingenuity of one of the most totalitarian and self-insulating nations in the world. The building, meant to be a core monument to the strength of North Korea, was added to maps and stamps before it was even half-built, and was set to be the tallest hotel in the world. At first the project simply ran out of funding, then as the low-quality concrete of which it was built began to sag and crack the sobering reality began to set it: the structure would need a massive overhaul to ever be completed. Now it goes unmentioned by tour guides, absent from maps and stamps, a symbolic blight towering on the capital city skyline. It was such an embarrassment that the state officially denies its existence, despite numerous photographs and satellite images.

What?  They’re having the grand opening in April, this info is completely outdated. The new photos look pretty finished, but I have no idea what the inside is like. They got the rest of the funding from Orascom, an Egyptian company that wanted to get in on the North Korean mobile phone market so they paid to finish it. You could get this info in like two seconds and they’ve been talking about the 2012 celebrations for the past couple of years at least…There’s enough horrible stuff you can say about North Korea just using facts we really don’t need to spin stuff with outdated info :/ I just don’t understand stuff like this, just searching for pics for this post some of the first ones that come up are the newer ones if it.