Long time coming: North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' to finally open 26 years after construction first began

Long time coming: North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' to finally open 26 years after construction first began | Mail Online
The enormous structure dubbed the 'Hotel of Doom' has been a source of fascination and ridicule around the world and an oversized embarrassment for North Korea's authoritarian regime led by the Korean Workers' Party.
North Korea began building the Ryugyong in the 1980s but stopped when North Korea suffered an economic crisis and funding ran out in the 1990s.
It was voted 'Worst Building in the History of Mankind' by Esquire magazine in 2008, which described the Ryugyong as 'hideously ugly, even by communist standards'.