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    What engineering embarrassment has cost the DPRK 2% of its GNP? By contrast 2% of US GNP would amount to $220 billion.

    Question #107472. Asked by unclerick. (Jul 28 09 11:10 AM)


    serpa

    		The Ryugyong (Capital of Willows) Hotel in Pyongyang. 105 floors and going nowhere. "The hotel's story begins in 1987, when the North Korean government began construction at an estimated cost of $750 million, or 2% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). By comparison, 2% of the United States' GDP would be about $220 billion."

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    Jul 28 09, 12:40 PM

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