Ryugyong Hotel: North Korea’s Hotel of Doom

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Source/Further reading:

History of the hotel: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ryugyong-hotel-architecture-origins/index.html
Overview: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ryugyong-hotel
North Korean famine: https://www.history.com/news/north-koreas-devastating-famine
In depth: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/how-kim-jong-il-starved-north-korea/250244/
Tales of the famine: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/north-koreas-hunger
Cannibalism in the famine: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/02/05/the-cannibals-of-north-korea/
Kim eating pizza as his countrymen starve: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3559266.stm
History podcast on Kim Jong-il, the handover of power, and the famine: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/joe-streckert/interesting-times/e/54416554?autoplay=true
How the LEDs were installed: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2180004/ryugyong-worlds-tallest-empty-hotel-dazzles-north-korean-capital
Some words on Pyongyang architecture: https://failedarchitecture.com/pleasure-postponed-pyongyangs-tourist-hotels/
Juche explained: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/18/17441296/north-korea-propaganda-ideology-juche
2014 apartment collapse: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27459186

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