Why wasn’t the Ryugyong Hotel finished? The failure of the hotel has had multiple iterations. In 2008, 16 years after construction first halted, Egyptian construction firm Orascom Group stepped ...

The Ryugyong Hotel, located in Pyongyang, has been under construction for almost four decades -but it now plans to operate a casino on the premises in the hopes of finally booking in its first guest.

It is North Korea’s creepily empty and embarrassing project, the futuristic but failed Ryugyong Hotel that juts skyward in the centre of the capital Pyongyang.

Pyongyang's pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, which poetically enough was built with some help from Egyptians, is one of the world's strangest landmarks and most conspicuous construction-project fails.

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This $3.1 billion hotel is taller than many of the most iconic buildings in the world, but it’s sat empty for decades. Set to be the jewel in the country’s crown, the 330-metre-tall structure ...