Hotel of Doom to open quarter of a century late

A hotel in North Korea looks set to finally open its doors 25 years after construction began.

Hotel of Doom to open quarter of a century late

A hotel in North Korea looks set to finally open its doors 25 years after construction began.

The Ryugyong Hotel - which has been dubbed the Hotel of Doom - was originally due to be completed in 1989 after work started on it in 1987, but building had to be stopped in the mid-1990s following an economic crisis in the country.

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