North Korean 旗 lights up Pyongyang's 'Hotel of Doom'

The hotel illuminated with the North Korean flag

The hotel illuminated with the North Korean 旗

The 非常に高い hulk of the Ryugyong Hotel, a 広大な and unfinished edifice that has ぼんやり現れるd over Pyongyang for 10年間s, was lit up on Monday night.

Lights 機動力のある 近づく the 最高の,を越す of the 105-storey structure 描写するd a red, white and blue North Korean 旗, while the 辛勝する/優位s of the building were illuminated in yellow and multicoloured lights beamed out from over the 入り口.

The 陳列する,発揮する was 明白な for いっそう少なく than an hour but will 強める 憶測 about the ill-運命/宿命d hotel. Construction began in 1987, when North Korea's 創立者 Kim Il Sung still 支配するd the country.

It stopped in the 1990s after the 崩壊(する) of the Soviet Union 乾燥した,日照りのd up 基金ing from Moscow. For 10年間s the structure stood 十分な 高さ but incomplete, its empty rooms looking out ominously over the city, 収入 it the 愛称 'Hotel of Doom'.

It is 報道によれば the world's largest unoccupied building.

Egyptian 会社/堅い Orascom, the 大多数 株主 in North Korea's Koryolink cellphone 網状組織, was 強いるd to spend millions of dollars to glaze the structure as part of its 取引,協定 to enter the country, and the exterior was 完全にするd in 2011.

スイスの 高級な hotel chain Kempinski held discussions about 開始 in the building , but pulled out in 2013, with a spokeswoman telling AFP: "Market 入ること/参加(者) is not 現在/一般に possible."

No 最近の work has been seen 存在 carried out. But 憶測 has 機動力のある that some parts could finally be put to use, after 塀で囲むs around it were 除去するd last year to 明らかにする/漏らす roads に向かって its 入り口, and the 時折の night-time light was spotted.

Under 現在の leader Kim Jong Un, the 創立者's grandson, a 一連の 都市の 開発 事業/計画(する)s have changed the Pyongyang skyline.

A light show displays a North Korean flag atop the hotel above the Pyongyang skyline

A light show 陳列する,発揮するs a North Korean 旗 頂上に the hotel above the Pyongyang skyline

Even so there has been no 公式の/役人 word on any 計画(する)s for the hotel -- although this 週末's 106th 周年記念日 of Kim Il Sung's birth could be the occasion for some 肉親,親類d of 明かすing.

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