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title: "Ryugyong Hotel: North Korea Strategic Site Dossier | Save North Korea"
description: "Ryugyong Hotel (Regime): 105-story pyramid started in 1987 and still not open. A symbol of the regime’s priorities."
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# Ryugyong Hotel

105-story pyramid started in 1987 and still not open. A symbol of the regime’s priorities.

![Ryugyong Hotel](https://savenorthkorea.org/img/places/ryugyong.jpg)

[Photo via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prázdné%5Fslnice%5Fa%5Frozestavěný%5Fhotel%5FRyugyong%5F-%5Fpanoramio.jpg)

Ryugyong Hotel · 39.0367°N, 125.7308°E [Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/@39.0367,125.7308,15z/data=!3m1!1e3) · Imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics 

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## Source

- [**Wikipedia** en.wikipedia.org ↗ ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong%5FHotel)

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