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Posted on 08/02/2025 7:43:30 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
At North Korea’s new beach resort, the white sand glistened against the crystal-clear waters. Ten minutes of Wi-Fi cost $1.70. Food arrived in abundance, albeit with the same three beverage choices: water, tea or beer.
The weeklong trip cost roughly $2,000. The catch? All travelers had to be Russian.
Welcome to North Korea’s Wonsan Kalma coastal complex, a megaresort built by the regime to portray the country as modern and affluent. It is opening to foreign vacationers for the first time, as part of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s drive to attract more tourism to his cash-strapped country and show his people they can experience some of the finer things in life despite international sanctions.
Anastasia Samsonova, a 33-year-old from Moscow, was looking for something offbeat for her summer vacation. Having never been to North Korea, she chose a group tour that would spend several days in Pyongyang before arriving in Wonsan.
But as she took her first steps on the sand, Samsonova—who, along with 12 other Russians, was part of the first group of foreign vacationers allowed to visit the resort several weeks ago—faced an unsettling sight. “The entire beach was empty,” she said. “In fact, we seemed to be the only guests in the entire resort.”
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“All travelers had to be Russian”
i guess that’s the Nork’s version of a soft opening ...
If Kim wants to make more money he will have to add some more permitted countries, and add some casinos.
Iranians need a place to vacation besides China.
You’re probably intending this to be tongue-in-cheek, but why should the citizens of countries that “the US doesn’t like” have almost no options for travel or vacation? The current regime of sanctions and limitations is almost like a form of collective punishment, and should be stopped.
if a Noko can afford a vacation to Disneyworld, he is a spy.
That might apply to NK, but most definitely doesn’t apply to Russia, Iran, Libya, and other similar countries.
Morons go to a North Korean resort, find it’s a Potemkin Village like everything else in the country.
Proving once again that Communism cannot survive without Capitalism.
Yes, but how was the sweet and sour cat?
Visiting a nice hotel on a repressive government’s security beach compound in a locked and closed country of hungry and oppressed people, is not what most people of advanced nations think of as a vacation.
I think we will visit after the following visits: Russia, Ukraine, Cuba, Chicago, California, Mexico City, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, South Africa, Tajikistan or the moon (Safer than the other places, but not for me)!
You’re bad.
We can get all the democrats to go by calling it a S hole.
Unless you are a liberal and thinks Cuba is wonderful.
“They have such cool cars.”
Leftists always say, “I want to visit Cuba before it’s ruined.”
Very very true...
“The current regime of sanctions and limitations is almost like a form of collective punishment, and should be stopped.”
What would you change ?
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