P.J. O'Rourke once wrote that "Commies love concrete, but they don’t know how to make it".

In North Korea, they also don't know how to finish it: next time you're in Pyongyang, why not visit the Ryugyong Hotel?

Well, probably because the massive pyramidal structure, which cost two percent of North Korea's GDP, and looks like a building from Logan's Run, was never completed. Instead, it looms over the city like an enormous unfinished black pyramid of gloom.

....Probably because it is an enormous unfinished black pyramid of gloom.