That’s the premise of his new self-published book “Hotels of Pyongyang,” with text by Scullin and photographs by Nicole Reed. “So much of the world is globalized now. There are so few ...

Hotels of Pyongyang, by author James Scullin and photographer Nicole Reed, takes readers inside the frozen-in-time, yet surprisingly glamorous, hotels of the hermit country's capital city.

A picture doesn't lie-- the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle. Not that you would ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea – North Korea's most famous luxury hotel has reopened after renovations that modernized its 1980s, vaguely Soviet, style. The Koryo is one of Pyongyang's best-known and ...

In 1987, ground was broken on a grand new hotel in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. The pyramid-shaped, supertall skyscraper was to exceed 1,000 feet in height, and was designed to house at ...

The Ryugyong Hotel in the center of North Korea's capital city Pyongyang, must count as one of the strangest building projects, not to say one of the ugliest, in the world. Construction began in ...

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.

Pyongyang quietly unveiled renovations around the capital’s biggest landmark: a futuristic, pyramid-shaped 105-storey hotel, the world’s tallest unoccupied building. After decades of ...

At 330m tall soaring above the Pyongyang skyline, the Ryugyong is the butt of jokes and nicknames such as “phantom hotel” and “hotel of doom”. What was meant to be the pride of North Korea ...

That’s the premise of his new self-published book “Hotels of Pyongyang,” with text by Scullin and photographs by Nicole Reed. “So much of the world is globalized now. There are so few ...