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Pretend Tourists, Lavish Meals, Empty Beaches: North Korea's New Resort Gets First Foreign Reviews
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Pretend tourists, lavish meals, empty beaches: North Korea's new resort gets first foreign reviews
The billiards hall never closed, the beer was always cold and the beachgoers never seemed to sweat — welcome to North Korea’s latest seaside spectacle, where even the vacationers might be on the payroll.
North Korea unveils Benidorm-inspired beach resort
North Korea has reportedly welcomed its first group of Russian tourists to a new beach resort that leader Kim Jong Un hopes will transform the isolated nation into an unlikely holiday destination. Olivia Palamountain reports Fancy a niche beach holiday? Try North Korea's Wonsan Kalma resort, opened recently by Kim Jong Un and what he describes as a "world-class tourist and cultural destination". The resort spans a 4km stretch of coastline and ca…
Kim Jong-un invested in building a luxurious hotel on the coast of Kalama in the east of the country to attract foreign currency and compensate for sanctions – but dependence on China and Russia has left the complex empty of foreign tourists
In a country with high military costs and a lot of poverty, open up the recent Wonsan Beach tourist resort shows concerns about the regime. Illustrate one of the dilemmas the North Koreans are facing: how to recover tourism and let some money enter the country, while controlling information that inevitably goes into the territory when a foreigner enters.
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