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North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un to Open Gigantic Beachfront Resort to Boost Tourism
Gateway Pundit ^ | June 27, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft

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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1 posted on 06/27/2025 8:27:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Just where I want to go..


2 posted on 06/27/2025 8:28:43 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Red Badger

So he Un-opens it?


3 posted on 06/27/2025 8:29:12 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Today's Democrat Party is nothing but very bad performance art. )
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To: Red Badger

Trump wannabe.


4 posted on 06/27/2025 8:30:18 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Today's Democrat Party is nothing but very bad performance art. )
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To: Col Frank Slade

A real treat for the tourists will be the daily execution of dissidents. You’ll never know what sort of new and unique method of murder he’ll come up with next!..................


5 posted on 06/27/2025 8:31:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

mamadin(SP) NYC can’t-i-date for mare might like to visit. Surely he’s a fan boy of kill jung dung.


6 posted on 06/27/2025 8:33:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: blackdog

The menus at the restaurants will feature such mouthwatering dishes as: Capitalist Dog ala Kim, Korean Cat ala Il Sung, and everybody’s favorite, Dissident Liver with Fava Beans!..................YUM!..............


7 posted on 06/27/2025 8:34:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: blackdog

Or it’s the result of conversations with Trump. The Donald loves to lead with suggesting development projects.


8 posted on 06/27/2025 8:34:05 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: Red Badger

If it’s true, I am betting that this is Trumps idea. Quiet back channel communications. You can be known as a brutal tyrant dictator, OR you can be seen as a transformative figure. Do you want to fire missiles around or do you want to really do something good?

Daddy says, MNKGA?! lol

Democrats gonna hate that.


9 posted on 06/27/2025 8:34:38 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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Bernie Sanders will be the first honored guest...................


10 posted on 06/27/2025 8:37:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Hahaha! NK taking a page out of PDJT’s playbook...


11 posted on 06/27/2025 8:39:36 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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12 posted on 06/27/2025 8:40:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Sounds like another North Korean Potemkin village. A few years ago, I read a book by a British visitor to NK who described seeing universities with no students, wide, tree-lined boulevards in the capital with no cars, and waterfalls up in the mountains that can be turned on and off.


13 posted on 06/27/2025 8:40:48 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Col Frank Slade

Just where I want to go..

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Me, too. I can’t wait....NOT.


14 posted on 06/27/2025 8:40:54 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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15 posted on 06/27/2025 8:41:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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16 posted on 06/27/2025 8:42:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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17 posted on 06/27/2025 8:42:47 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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But whatever you do as a visitor, don’t touch any portraits!!! /Obscure


18 posted on 06/27/2025 8:45:04 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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Yep, it can get you more that just a brief stay.............


19 posted on 06/27/2025 8:45:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
A couple of years ago my Korean American girlfriend and I went to the ROK so she could visit her family and I could meet them. While there we took a day trip up to the DMZ...a truly amazing,and scary,experience (actually,I was scared,she wasn't). There's an observation area looking north that has those big viewers that you feed coins into.You can clearly see a huge North Korean flag and a village that looks to be pretty modern (by North Korean standards).

But it turns out that the village is empty...it's just a Hollywood set. I bet this new "resort" is just the same.

20 posted on 06/27/2025 8:46:04 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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