North Korea has inaugurated the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area, featuring a 2.5-mile beach with 400 buildings, including hotels and various amenities. The luxury resort can host approximately 20,000 guests and aims to enhance tourism as a means to improve the sanctions-hit economy. Despite ambitions for the region to become a world destination, analysts note that military developments and isolation may limit access for foreign tourists. This project represents Kim Jong Un's long-term vision for boosting tourism in economically lagging areas.
"As an example, they have great beaches. You see that whenever they're exploding their cannons into the ocean," Trump told reporters. "I said, you know, instead of doing that, you could have the best hotels in the world right there."
The Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area stretches across the 2.5-mile beach of the Kalma Peninsula. The shorefront is lined with some 400 buildings, including high-rise hotels and villas that can accommodate around 20,000 guests.
Analysts say the opening of this luxury resort shows that Pyongyang is pursuing economic prosperity as well as not instead of military ambitions and reclusive dictatorship.
Even as a marquee project, the Kalma tourism zone took nearly a decade.
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