White Elephant

SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY wrong with the 3,000-room Yu Kyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. At 105 stories, the hotel is the largest building in Asia, boasting a $4.7 billion athletic complex. But the structure may never open. It is sagging so badly now that the elevators are said to be unusable.

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