The Ryugyong Hotel in the center of North Korea's capital city Pyongyang, must count as one of the strangest building projects, not to say one of the ugliest, in the world. Construction began in 1987 ...

AFTER waiting and endless speculation, North Korean authorities have finally opened the doors to the famed Ryugyong hotel. The hotel, which has been under construction for almost four decades, plans ...

Photographs of the hotel’s interior from 2012 revealed that, inside, very little work had been done. The images were taken by Simon Cockerell, general manager at Koryo Group, a Beijing-based company ...

PYONGYANG, North KoreaPYONGYANG, North Korea — A foreign tour agency has released the first public photos from inside the tallest and most notorious building in North Korea: the 105-story, ...