Despite plans to complete the hotel and welcome tourists, North Korea has put a sudden 'pause' on its Western tourist drive, just weeks after visitors entered the country for the first time in years.

At 1,080 feet, North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world.

This hotel has gained an infamous reputation for being one of the world’s tallest abandoned buildings and it has an eerie ...