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Hope for Pyongyang’s ‘Hotel of Doom’?

Post Date: Jul 18, 2008 12:42 p.m.
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The pyramid-shaped, 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, has been languishing—unfinished—for 16 years. But now Egyptian developers have begun refurbishing what was once dubbed “the worst building in the history of mankind,” Reuters reports . It’s estimated to cost $2 billion—about 10 percent of North Korea’s annual economic output—to finish the skyline-dominating eyesore. Related on World Hum: * The Ryugyong Hotel: ‘The Worst Building in the History of Mankind’? Photo via Wikipedia Commons .

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