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North Korean leader Kim Jong Une Jong U Cut the inaugural band into a new coastal tourism site during an extravagant ceremony on Tuesday, although the complex is not immediately open to foreign tourists.
Kim visited the coastal tourist area of Wonsan-Kalma, calling for its construction “one of the biggest successes of this year” and “The proud first stage” towards a new era in the government’s tourism industry, according to the official Korean central press agency.
Hotels and other accommodation for nearly 20,000 people have been built on the east coast of the Hermit, where visitors could participate in activities such as swimming, sports and leisure and restaurants in the restaurant’s restaurants, the media said.
The complex, North Korea The largest tourist site, will open national tourists next Tuesday, said KCNA, but the report has not said when it starts to receive foreign tourists.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong Une, with his daughter, on the far left, cuts the inaugural band during an completion ceremony in the coastal tourist area of Wonsan-Kalma in North Korea on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Korean Central News Agency / Korea of news via AP)
Experts believe that North Korea has invested massively in the construction of the station and will eventually have to accept the Chinese and other foreign tourists to recover costs.
But North Korea has been slow to resume its international tourism because of the 19-year-old pandemic borders, a push of tensions with the United States and South Korea in recent years and is worried about Western tourists diffusing a negative image of its system.
Kim Jong Une, seated center, with his wife Ri Sol Ju, rear, and his daughter turns in the coastal tourist area of Wonsan-Kalma in North Korea on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (Korean Central News Agency / Korea of news via AP)
Analysts say that the complex will first open to Russian tourists, as evidenced by its booming soldiers and other Partnerships with RussiaBefore finally opening to Chinese tours.
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The Russian ambassador to North Korea and his embassy staff appeared at the Tuesday ceremony, according to KCNA, although the report has not said if no Chinese diplomats were also invited.
South Korean and American tourists will not be as lucky, said Lim Eul-Chul, professor at the Institut de la Université de Kyungnam for Extreme Oriental studies in Seoul, told the Associated Press.
President Donald Trump met Kim Jong one in Singapore in June 2018 during his first mandate as president. During the first months of his second term, Trump argued that the United States would have relations with North Korea. (AP / Evan Vucci)
LIM said these visits will probably not redeem any soon, although the new Liberal South Korean President Lee Myung and the President Donald Trump expressed the hope of relaunching dialogue with North Korea.
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Kim pushed a tourist center to make the country in the context of efforts to revive the economy in difficulty, KCNA reporting that North Korea will soon confirm the construction plans of large tourist sites in other parts of the country.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
