This is another large building in North Korea. Dictators seem to embody their range of emotion through architecture, Business Insider explained. The towering concrete buildings shroud the observers in their shadow, which is intensified for a country that keeps so much under wraps. A good evidence of the comedy and horror behind stories of such big-but-empty buildings is that North Korean builders are doled out with methamphetamine to “speed up” the progress of construction.

This photo shows Pyongyang by day, looking bleak. More and more tourists are teased by the secrecy of North Korea’s realities. Foreign visitors are no longer dazzled or deceived by “staged” events happening around them. They continue to look for a more real subject and not statues or portraits of the leaders. The city screams in misery for most of its buildings are empty while people outside the borders of the capital city are struggling with poverty, the Daily Mail reported.