The Ryugyong Hotel: Still Worth Its Weight in Infant Formula

Presenting the worst building in the world, now with glass.  It looks … different.  Curtis Melvin writes that it’s now officially less ignored and more a source of pride in Pyongyang, but I still think it brings to mind Churchill’s famous reply to Bessie Braddock.  And then there are the persistent rumors that it’s structurally unsound.  So how much of the cavity space in this gargantuan concrete tusk will ever be occupied?  It’s not as if they’re feeding the North Koreans or welcoming the foreigners who might fill it.

Related:   via Reuters, bad reviews for Kim Jong Il’s stimulus package.