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.
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Up to 20,000 visitors per year! Dividing by 365 days we get about 55 visitors per day on a strip of land 2.5 miles wide. So, the average visitor density is about 22 people per mile per day. That is enough to put several pairs of security force eyes on each person at all times.
That depends on how close to the mines and barbed wire you are..................
Could be an attraction at the resort: Dissident Island!
You go but you may not come back.
Perfect location for the Democrat National Convention. I hope they make their reservations early.
The 'Helicopter Tour' view is fantastic!.................
Remember Otto Warmbier.
Watch our amazing fireworks! (Err, exploding landmines)
THE SAME COUNTRY THAT COULD NOT LAUNCH A NEW SHIP???
Hotel North Korea
Don’t even try to take the soap home.
He must have liked Trump’s pitch enough to implement it himself.
I’d be kinda leery of any high rise buildings there..............
Remember the big bridge that was built with bags of garbage in the concrete mix to stretch materials!!??? It collapsed after six months.
The Jimmy Hoffa Memorial Bridge?.....................😁
Swimming with sea mines! Great fun!
Is this resort to be in NK or Gaza?
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