I gotta get me one of ‘em silk windbreakers to go with my horseshoe cleats.

North Korea’s “Hotel of Doom” wakes from its coma

By Jon Herskovitz Thu Jul 17, 3:56 AM ET

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea’s phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as “the worst building in the history of mankind,” the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world’s most reclusive and destitute countries.

According to foreign residents in Pyongyang, Egypt’s Orascom group has recently begun refurbishing the top floors of the three-sided pyramid-shaped hotel whose 330-metre (1,083 ft) frame dominates the Pyongyang skyline.

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DUSK

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This windbreaker is available in the gift shop
on the third floor observation deck.

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