reading anubis' wiki link
Japanese newspapers estimated the cost of construction was US$750 million,[11] consuming 2 percent of North Korea’s GDP.[12] For over a decade
Even though the Ryugyong dominates the Pyongyang skyline, official information regarding the hotel and its status have proven difficult to obtain. Though mocked-up images of the completed hotel had once appeared on North Korean stamps, the government denied the building's existence for many years, manipulated official photographs in order to remove the structure, and excluding it from printed maps of Pyongyang.
thats incredible! how can you deny knowledge of a f****ng massive building