Hotel Ryugyong

... out the Mansudae Hill with the Grand Monument, the one we had visited the day before, and beyond it the notorious, still unfinished Ryugyong Hotel. This spot was quite neat, but pretty empty, with an odd car here or there, and just a few more people than ...

... North Korea's economy was based. This is exemplified in the form of my favourite building in Pyongyang, the amazing Ryugyong Hotel, a veritable mountain of a building - literally, it was designed to look like a pyramidal, stylised mountain range from ...

... . To my left, on the other side of the river, almost hidden by the hotel wall, I could make out the famous, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, still unfinished and vying to one day - if that day ever comes - become the tallest hotel in the world. And that was ...

... , I found it genuinely fascinating. - The last stop today is an opportunity to take a close-up photograph of the Ryugyong hotel. A pyramid shaped building that would have been the world's tallest and largest hotel had it been completed, but after the ...