North Korea's The Ryugyong Hotel has spent over 30 years under construction READ MORE: From hidden perks to bizarre requests: ...

The Ryugyong Hotel was the brainchild of Kim Il-sung ... The "hotel," a fine example of the Kim regime's disastrous economic model, was an embarrassment. The government sometimes airbrushed ...

A picture doesn't lie-- the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle. Not that you would ...

The Ryugyong Hotel – named after a historical moniker for Pyongyang meaning “capital of willows” – was supposed to open just two years later. But it never did. While the structure reached ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea – 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 ...

SEOUL — North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel ranks among the world's most remarkable — and mockable — buildings. It's taller than New York's Chrysler Building and wider at its base than an average ...

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.

If construction had been completed when it was first expected, in 1992, the Ryugyong Hotel would have been the tallest hotel in the world. Instead, the striking pyramid-shaped has never opened its ...

A North Korean hotel that has been under construction for almost four decades plans to operate a casino on the premises in the hopes of finally booking in its first guest. The Ryugyong Hotel ...