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Photos of the 10,000-apartment development, released by state news agency KCNA after the country’s leader Kim Jong Un inspected the site Saturday, show residential skyscrapers spilling out from a wide boulevard in the new district, Hwasong.
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Oscar Holland, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
The decor is more comforting than mind-blowing, but there’s a lovely terrace area that’s nestled in amongst the skyscrapers.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
Trump developed the 58-story skyscraper in the early 1980s and serves as the headquarters for the Trump Organization.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025
Before inventing the skyscraper, Chicago was the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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Oscar Holland, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025
The decor is more comforting than mind-blowing, but there’s a lovely terrace area that’s nestled in amongst the skyscrapers.
—Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
Trump developed the 58-story skyscraper in the early 1980s and serves as the headquarters for the Trump Organization.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025
Before inventing the skyscraper, Chicago was the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires—the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Skyscraper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyscraper. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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skyscraper
noun
sky·scrap·er
ˈskī-ˌskrā-pər 
: a very tall building
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