The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un last Thursday opened a great tourist complex in the Kalma regionon the east coast of the country, about 140 kilometers from the capital, Pyongyang. The premiere of the facilities, which Copy the Benidorm modelis a peculiar milestone For a country closed almost completely to foreign tourism.
Kim's words point to a change of trend by celebrating that North Korea could become a “World Tourist Culture Center”. Kim has rebuilt an entire section of the first sea line of Wonsan's coastal city to create a Macrocomplex with slides and poolscapable of hosting some 20.000 personas.
In information disseminated by the official KCNA agency, they detail that Wonsan Kalma has “facilities for Sea baths, various sports and recreational areas“, and has” everything necessary to show the beauty of the coastal landscape in any season of the year, “the agency said.
The project, launched in 2017, was for years abandoned and invaded by the synthes.
A closed tourist complex to foreigners
During the opening ceremony, Kim Jong-un, accompanied by his daughter ju ae and his wife Ri Sol Juexpressed his “Great satisfaction” with the result of the project, which he described as “One of the greatest achievements of the year“In addition, he announced that North Korea plan to develop new tourist areas On a large scale “as soon as possible.”
North Korea opens the Wonsan Kalma tourist complex / KCNA | EFE
For now, only national tourists can access the complex after their Opening today July 1due to the restrictions that still weigh on foreign visitors. However, the first international tourists who could visit the country in this new phase of tourist impulse, one of the few Income routes not subject to sanctions of the UN, they would be the Russian citizensthanks to the close relationship between both governments.
