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Inside North Koreas $800 million Hotel of Doom: The Brit who saw the empty pyramid up close

A 330-metre pyramid meant to showcase North Koreas modernity, the Ryugyong Hotel remains empty decades after construction began. Briton Simon Cockerell, one of the few Westerners granted access, describes an unfinished concrete interior behind its polished glass faade. His rare visit reveals a 600m megaproject frozen mid-build, reflecting shifting priorities inside the worlds most closed state.