Have A Hankerin' To Spend A Holiday In A North Korean Resort On The Beach? Well Here's Your Chance

Posted • January 12, 2025: North Korea is set to open a long-awaited luxury beachfront "tourist city" later this year on the Kalma peninsula as the "first big step" to developing the country's tourism industry. The resort complex comprises about 150 hotels, restaurants and attractions being built along the 5-kilometre Myongsasimni beach near the city of Wonsan on the east coast. The area was previously used as a missile testing site. State media has released a series of photos showing the country's supreme leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the facilities with his daughter Kim Ju Ae. "The construction of the Kalma coastal tourist area is the first big step of great significance in putting the national tourist industry on a track of epochal development," Mr Kim was quoted as saying.