Penthouses in North Korea are mainly for the unfortunate few


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  • Friday, 15 Apr 2022

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a terraced residential district on a bank of the Pothong River during its completion ceremony in Pyongyang, North Korea, April 13, 2022. Picture taken April 13, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS

SEOUL (Reuters) - For people in many countries, living in a penthouse is the dream. In North Korea? Not so much.

Leader Kim Jong Un keeps building outwardly glamorous high-rise apartment buildings in the capital, Pyongyang, with the latest being an 80-storey skyscraper completed this week.

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