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N Korea completes building another tourist area on east coast

SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has held a completion ceremony for a new tourist zone on the east coast, state media reported Friday, after it opened the Kalma beach resort last year in an ...
Time

Welcome to North Korea! Inside the Growing Business of Geopolitical Adventure Tourism

Dylan Harris runs Lupine Travel, a U.K.-based travel agency offering tours of geopolitical hot spots like Iran, Chernobyl and Dennis Rodman’s new favorite vacation destination, North Korea. Although ...
CNN

Hotels, beaches and water parks, but where are the tourists? Inside North Korea’s vast — and nearly empty — new resort

Miles of white sand, turquoise waters, and rows of pristine beachfront hotels line the shore at the newly built Wonsan-Kalma resort. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hopes the development will be his ...
The Atlantic

North Korea Says Everyone Wants to Visit — Especially with All the Nuclear Threats

Tourism in North Korea has "steadily increased" over the last decade, with "a large number" of visitors "from some 50 countries and regions over the last year," according to a report from North ...