Who would expect this from North Korea

The Ryugyong Hotel (Korean: 류경호텔) (sometimes anglicized as Ryu-Gyong Hotel or Yu-Kyung Hotel) is a supertall skyscraper intended for use as a hotel in Sojang-dong, in the Potong-gang District of Pyongyang, North Korea. 
Construction began in !!1987!! and ceased in 1992, due to the government's financial difficulties. The unfinished hotel remained untouched until April 2008, when construction resumed after being inactive for 16 years.^[3]

The hotel's name comes from one of the historic names for Pyongyang: Ryugyong, or "capital of willows".^[1] Its 105 stories rise to a height of 330 metres (1,100 ft), and it contains 360,000 square metres (3,900,000 sq ft) of floor space, making it the most prominent feature of the city's skyline and by far the largest structure in the country. It is the world's 28th tallest building. If completed on schedule, it would have become the world's tallest hotel.^[2]