North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un wants to destroy luxury hotel that once floated off coast of QLD

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the destruction of a dilapidated luxury hotel which once floated off the north Queensland coast.

Mr Kim reportedly isn’t happy with the state of the Hotel Haegumgang – formally known as the Four Season Barrier Reef Resort.

The seven-storey resort with nearly 200 rooms, a nightclub, bars and a helipad opened for business in 1988 and operated for a year about 70 kilometres off Townsville.

The floating hotel was once a symbol of co-operation between North and South because it attracted tourists from south of the border

But after three decades it’s now in North Korea among a ‘shabby… hotchpotch’ of buildings ‘with no national character at all’ says Mr Kim, according to state media.

Townsville developer Doug Tarca thought up the Singapore-built structure which was moored off John Brewer Reef.

The building was then sold to a company in Vietnam before ending up off the Korean Peninsula, according to the ABC.

The floating hotel was once a symbol of co-operation between North and South because it attracted tourists from south of the border.

That was up until 2008 when a North Korean guard shot dead a South Korean tourist which resulted in the suspension in tours, according to The Associated Press.

On Wednesday Mr Kim reportedly told officials to remove the ‘unpleasant-looking facilities’ at the Diamond Mountain resort on the North’s east coast.

On Wednesday Mr Kim reportedly told officials to remove the ‘unpleasant-looking facilities’ at the Diamond Mountain resort on the North’s east coast