Heck the tower is nearly as old as Kim Un!..began it in 1987..3,000 rooms and suppose to open to the public next summer - 24 or so years behind schedule. An inspection by a European delegation in the 90’s concluded that the shell was irreparable and it should be torn down because of its poor-quality concrete and crooked elevator shafts.......Esquire magazine described it as ‘the worst building in the history of mankindÂ’. Others labeled it “the Hotel of Doom”..and the name stuck. However...just last year, its concrete was strengthened and its exterior coated in 111  million worth of glass...by the Egyptian Orascom Group which took over as developer in 2008 Orascom installed the glass panels along with telecom antennae. You can read further here....especially about the journalist who snuck ‘inside’ the building.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245054/Welcome-Hotel-Doom-The-3-000-room-monstrosity-Kim-Jong-Uns-starving-dictatorship-North-Korea-foreigner-stepped-inside—now.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2245054/Welcome-Hotel-Doom-The-3-000-room-monstrosity-Kim-Jong-Uns-starving-dictatorship-North-Korea-foreigner-stepped-inside—now.html
I was talking about the new beach places.