North Korea has been building a huge holiday resort near the east coast port city of Wonsan for years. The problem with Kim Jong Un’s regime: the holidaymakers are still missing. According to the dictator, who visited the ghost resort this week, they should arrive in 2025.
Since the coronavirus pandemic, the politically isolated country has isolated itself even further. Since 2020, only a handful of foreigners have been allowed to visit North Korea. According to Kim Jong Un, who visited the seaside resort of Wonsan Kalma for the first time in five years, that should change soon.
According to state media, the Sea of Japan resort will finally open in May next year as part of plans to “boost tourism.” The military-built resort will feature thousands upon thousands of hotel rooms and hundreds of buildings on a total area of 245 hectares, built along a three-and-a-half-mile stretch of white sand beach.
“World-class coastal tourist resort”
Work on the “world-class seaside tourist resort” began in early 2018, before the coronavirus pandemic hit and the facility under construction was largely abandoned and construction put on hold indefinitely. Now, the massive beach resort is apparently nearing completion.
According to the tourism industry, North Korea is visited by around 100,000 tourists a year, most of them from China. However, the Pyongyang regime does not publish its own statistics on tourism.
Pyongyang promoted tourism and made money from it. However, for the past four years, the only tourists to travel to North Korea have been a few Russians who visited earlier this year. Other tourists have been banned.
Source: Krone
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