First Images Inside North Korea’s Ghost Skyscraper
That eery wonderland of weird and misery that is North Korea has its epicentre on this place : the Ryugyong Hotel — the 105 - story skyscraper erected in Pyongyang to the resplendence of whatever Kim was ruling back in 1987 , when construction commence . That mental synthesis stop in 1992 , after the declivity of the Soviet Union , and resume in 2008 only to stop and restart several times ....