Dreamt up in the 1980s as a show of North Korea's Cold War might, the Ryugyong Hotel has never, even briefly, opened its doors. Instead, it's been towering above North Korean capital Pyongyang for ...

For many travelers, spending a lot of time in a hotel means you haven’t properly gone out and enjoyed a destination. But in North Korea, the opposite is true. For James Scullin, who has visited the ...