North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected the Kalma tourist area, a long-awaited beachfront resort complex, stating it will mark a significant step in developing the country's tourism industry. The complex features numerous hotels, restaurants, and attractions.
North Korea n leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Kim Ju Ae visited the Kalma tourist area last week.Kim Jong Un has visited the site of a long-awaited beachfront 'tourist city' that was initially due to be completed in 2019. Mr Kim was quoted as saying the Wonsan -Kalma resort complex will put the country's tourism industry on track for 'epochal development'.
North Korea is set to open a long-awaited luxury beachfront 'tourist city' later this year on the Kalma peninsula as the 'first big step' to developing the country's tourism industry. The resort complex comprises about 150 hotels, restaurants and attractions being built along the 5-kilometre Myongsasimni beach near the city of Wonsan on the east coast.State media has released a series of photos showing the country's supreme leader Kim Jong Un inspecting the facilities with his daughter Kim Ju Ae. 'The construction of the Kalma coastal tourist area is the first big step of great significance in putting the national tourist industry on a track of epochal development,' Mr Kim was quoted as saying. (US-based North Korea expert Jacob Bogle said the state-owned resort complex would be the biggest tourism development in the country and likely the largest single-owner resort complex in the world once completed. Mr Bogle said it was often compared to the Benidorm area of Spain's Costa Blanca — a destination famous for its hotels, beaches, and skyscrapers, which a North Korean fact-finding mission visited in 2017. 'But Benidorm is a collection of different resorts and hotels owned by different companies built up over years and years,' he said. 'Wonsan is one single, giant complex and, as far as I'm aware, there aren't any other single-owner beach resorts on this scale.'Mr Bogle, who has developed a comprehensive map of North Korea, said there would also be an aquarium and sports facilities at the resort comple
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