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Tall tale: why Pyongyang’s pyramid hotel has no guests

Pyongyang’s pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel, which poetically enough was built with some help from Egyptians, is one of the world’s strangest landmarks and most conspicuous construction-project fails. Intended to be the world’s tallest hotel, it has yet to host a guest, even though it’s nearly as old as leader Kim Jong-un.