Pools and slides as North Korea set to open ‘world class’ tourist resort • FRANCE 24 English

a lavish opening ceremony north korea supreme leader kim jong-un cut the inaugural tape on tuesday with pyongyang saying the country’s new onsan calam coastal tourist zone will usher in a new era in its tourism industry [Applause] kim visited the 4 km stretch the country’s biggest tourist site with his wife and daughter construction began in 2018 now years later it has accommodation and distractions for up to 20,000 people the country’s state news agency said the transformation of the one san kalma area a great apicious event of the whole country is a brilliant fruition of the profound thinking and inexhaustible efforts of the respected comrade kim jong-un kim is more often associated internationally with appearances overseeing ballistic military launches these latest images however do not suggest an opening up of the country the first domestic tourists will visit from the 1st of july russian officials say the first russian tour to the site will take place a few days later with the number of foreign visitors severely restricted any american tours to the site are highly unlikely though the us president donald trump has expressed hopes of reviving dialogue with pyongyang on his inauguration day the 20th of january trump boasted about his ties with kim saying “i think he has tremendous condo capabilities he’s got a lot of shoreline.” a likely reference to wansan kalma north korea has repeatedly rejected washington and soul’s dialogue offers and focused instead on expanding its nuclear weapons program since kim’s nuclear diplomacy with trump collapsed in 2019

North Korea has completed construction on a massive tourist resort boasting colourful water slides and swimming pools, state media said on Thursday, a pet project of leader Kim Jong Un. Kim was an enthusiastic visitor this week to the sprawling site on the isolated country’s east coast, which is set to open its doors on July 1 to domestic tourists and maybe one day foreign ones.
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29 comments

  16. It's astonishing they're making this progress with every possibly sanction on earth placed on them. I hope they help progressing

  18. I mean, in the U.S. would ALSO put you in jail for memes of government officials. I may as well just go to the NK.

  19. Speaking as an American, DPRK's press releases full of obsequious adulation for Great Leader feel less alien with each passing day. I wonder what will be our Mount Paektu.

  20. Come for the beaches, stay for the prisons!!! Guess what?? EVERYTHING is against the law!!!!!😡😡😡💀💀💀💀

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