Kim Jong Un North Korea’s top guide Kim Jong Un officially opened a new beach resort in the country’s Wonsan Kalma Coastal tourist zone – six years after completion, the state media reported on Thursday.
The massive tourist zone that is located North Korea East Coast is part of a key project that Kim Jong and for years pushed to promote tourism in the notorious country.
In this photo of the North Korean government, the North Korean leader Kim Jong un, the second right, with his daughter on the left, the opening volume performs during a final ceremony of the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal tourist zone in North Korea on Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
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With “great satisfaction” Kim took part in an opening ceremony for the coastal tourist area of
According to the national news agency, the tourist area Sonnenbaden on a four-kilometer long beach and various sports, amusement, commercial and public catering services as well as a variety of accommodation offers the all year round.
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The area has long been a holiday destination for locals, but Kim wanted to transform it into a profound billion dollar tourism hotspot, which is inspired by “tourism in the Korean style”.
“When Kim Jong Un arrived, Stormy cheered ‘Hurray!’ Lotened far and wide ”, the Kcna reported.
Tourism in North Korea is not an industry that is aimed at sanctions from the United Nations, but the difficult -to -use country did not work with a foreign partner due to economic sanctions against its nuclear weapons programs to develop the Wonsan project.
North Korea is one of the most impoverished countries in the world and has been managed by the Kim family since 1948, which leads most of the isolated state capital into their military, national monuments and landmarks in Pyongyang, the capital of the country.
The new beach resort will be open to domestic visitors from July 1, KCNA confirmed, but it was not mentioned that it allows international tourists.
North Korea closed its borders in 2020 at the beginning of Covid 19 pandemic, but has slowly lifted restrictions since 2023, which enables Russian visitors the following year.
Russian tourist groups were allowed to go to North Korea, but their capital is usually closed for regular tourism, although in April they organized a marathon event with foreign participants.
The Russian ambassador to North Korea and the embassy staff was present as special guests during the opening ceremony of the Beach Resort, said Kcna.
Russia and North Korea work together to expand tourism in both countries, and have restarted a direct commuter train service between their capitals Moscow and Pyongyang for the first time since 2020.
– With files from Reuters
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