This hotel can add several records. It is one of the 80 highest buildings in the world, one of the ten hotels with the most floors in the world (105) and has been 34 years without having a client. The Ryugyong hotel was planned to be the jewel of the North Korean crown, and became a curse. It began to be built in 1987, when the leader of the country was Kim Il -Sung, the grandfather of the current mandamás, Kim Jong – Un. The idea was that it opened in 1989 and the world could be shown as an architectural diamond. But the economic problems began and the great economic crisis of 1991 together with the fall of the USSR caused the construction of the building to stop. Then it was believed that it would be December 30, 2017 when Kim Jong – a turned eight years in power. Then it was thought that it would happen on January 8, 2021 when the leader turned 36. Now it is thought that it will never be. The Ryugyong Hotel (means the city of the Sauces), was an obsession for North Korean leaders. But obsessions need money. And with the complete structure, what was missing was to finish it. Between 1990 and 2000, about three million North Koreans died of hunger. So it was until 2008, when the gigantic abandoned building received new workers. For the North Korean rulers it was a shame not to be able to conclude its most promoted structure. A telecommunications Egyptian company, the Orascom, which has good links and offices in North Korea, decided to finish the construction. In addition to the 3,000 rooms, the 8 rotating restaurants and some casinos and nightclubs, the Egyptians made charges of other revolutionary innovations.orascom put 400 million dollars to finish the hotel, in exchange for mounting the mobile infrastructure of the country. They spent 180 million dollars to cover the entire hotel with a blue mirror glass. The Ryugyong hotel looked like a real building. Just on the outside. Inside it was still empty. A cascaron without content. A day before North Korea launched its second ballistic missile, hundreds of soldiers introduced construction materials at the hotel and hung a huge poster that said: “The powerful rocket nation.” The Esquire magazine declared the hotel as “the worst building in the history of humanity.” And on top. But in 2018, leader King Jong-un launched a propaganda campaign to announce the opening of the hotel, although the building does not have electricity service. Kim decided to decorate it with more than 100,000 LED lights that for several hours every night transmit propaganda and the 40-meter North Korean flag in the upper cone.Allí is the Ryugyong hotel. Imposing and empty. Built as revenge to be higher than the Westin Stamford, from South Korea. They succeeded. But never, in 34 years, a tourist received. And maybe never receive it.
