The interior of the Ryugyong Hotel remains bare after breaks in construction due to North Korea's economic issues.

AFTER waiting and endless speculation, North Korean authorities have finally opened the doors to the famed Ryugyong hotel.

Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world. Construction on the "Hotel of Doom" began in 1987 and has stopped and started several times. One side ...

At 1,080 feet tall and boasting 105, this hotel is the tallest structure in the country - but it has never hosted a single ...

North Korea’s $750 million Ryugyong Hotel was meant to be a symbol of power, but it has stood abandoned for 30 years. What ...

In 1987, workers began constructing what would be the tallest hotel in the world in Pyongyang, North Korea. The frame was finished two years later - a little behind schedule, the structure was ...

North Korea's Ryugyong hotel, described as the worst building in the history of mankind by Esquire magazine, is set to open partially for business this spring, 23 years behind the schedule, ...

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.

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 ...

The Ryugyong Hotel, North Korea’s so-called “Hotel of Doom,” a 105-story, pyramid-shaped building, is nearing completion after nearly three decades of false starts. The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, ...

Satellite images indicated that construction trucks were around the hotel vicinity. (Getty Image) Pyongyang, October 17: North Korea resumed construction of the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, after ...

The unfinished building is a reminder of North Korea's thwarted ambition (Pic courtesy Ray Cunningham Jr) Infamously ugly and unfinished, the shell of the Ryugyong Hotel dominates North Korea's ...