Posted on 06/27/2025 8:27:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
North Korean “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong Un officially inaugurated the Wonsan‑Kalma coastal resort on June 24 — a lavish project covering over 2.5 miles of beach, outfitted with hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, and a water park.
Framed by state media as the “first step” toward a domestic tourism boom, the facility is set to open its doors to North Koreans on July 1, with purported capacity for up to 20,000 visitors per year.
With foreign tourists still largely banned—only select Russian visitors are tentatively scheduled starting July 7, according to AP.
The Wonsan-Kalma resort, originally unveiled in 2014, suffered multiple delays. In 2019, Kim Jong Un postponed the project, asserting he would not compromise on quality. Behind the scenes, analysts attributed this delay to sanctions-related import restrictions, according to Business Insiders.
The news outlet added:
That beach is in Wonsan, on the Kalma peninsula — a stretch of North Korea’s eastern coast now home to dozens of hotels and apartments — and is the latest puzzling artifact of Kim Jong Un’s grandiose ambitions.
Reports of the exact scale vary from about 7,000 to 20,000 rooms, which could make the resort — called Wonsan Kalma —one of the largest single-entity-owned beach resorts on the planet.
“This is by far larger than anything else Kim has done” in tourism, Bruce W. Bennett, an expert in North Korean affairs at RAND, told Business Insider.
The dream for Kim: a world-class megatourism project displaying his totalitarian power to the world and at home, and a way to make money.
The question is who, exactly, will flock there.
WATCH:
VIDEO AT LINK......................
He is taking Trump’s advice on tourism and beachfront property, but the totalitarian nature of NORK will not entice too many visitors.
Just don’t steal that poster from the bar at The N. Korean Sandals.
North Korea Tourist Motel, where your Maid, Butlers and Cooks beg you to let them stow away inside one of your suitcases.
“You won’t even know I’m in there. No trouble for you! Diaper!”
Will it have electricity?
Watch this become the #1 place to vacation for liberals, progressives, and democrats. Finally, a place that caters to their every whim where the government believes exactly what they do.
;^)
Will it have food?.....................
The resort of last resort..............
The REAL Hotel California...........You can check in but you cannot check OUT!................
It’s called ‘Six Flag at Half-Staff’.
ROFL! The travel posters are lovely! I wonder if American flies there — I have miles! LOL
The rides at the amusement park:
The 20 foot Rope Drop.
The 50 Caliber Machine Gun Run
The Molotov Cocktail Throw Competition
And everyone want to ride the Torture Chamber Express!.............
FINALLY!!
A cool beachfront vacation spot !
Safe, you get shot if you try to enter the wrong gate.
Healthy food, you eat nothing so you loose weight.
Other ideas for my marketing brochure ?
Babylon Bee, are you listening ?
What is he going to have tourism of his concentration and death camps where they murder people with anti-aircraft guns? Just askin...
What is he going to have tourism of his concentration and death camps where they murder people with anti-aircraft guns? Just askin...
Can’t wait to try Dog-On-A-Stick!..............
That’s only for VIP tickets!..................
Lights bother your eyes? Great, we only have candles as the resorts do not have electrical power.
What’s the temperature of the water?
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