A 3D render of the area surrounding Pyongyang’s 105-story Ryugyong Hotel was revealed for the first time in a program on state television this month, depicting grand plans including new skyscrapers as the project continues to stall on the ground. 

Also shown in the program on the work of the Paektusan Institute of Architecture (PIA), aired on March 10, were new detailed blueprints for the Ryugyong Hotel and the locations of some of the new planned buildings in its shadow.

Though the plans also appeared in the background of an image of DPRK leader Kim Jong Un during an on-site