Inside North Korea’s $800 million ‘Hotel of Doom’: The Brit who saw the empty pyramid up close

A 330-metre pyramid meant to showcase North Korea’s modernity, the Ryugyong Hotel remains empty decades after construction began. Briton Simon Cockerell, one of the few Westerners granted access, ...
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A new book offers a rare glimpse inside North Korea's frozen-in-time tourist hotels

In 2019, James Scullin and Nicole Reed traveled to North Korea from their native Australia to document a part of the country that most of the Western world has never seen. North Korea is regarded as ...
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Hotels, beaches and water parks, but where are the tourists? Inside North Korea’s vast — and nearly empty — new resort

(CNN) — Miles of white sand, turquoise waters, and rows of pristine beachfront hotels line the shore at the newly built Wonsan-Kalma resort. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hopes the development will ...