Wonsan Kalma opens to domestic tourists on 1 July, six years after it was due to be completed.
  • khaleer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    41·
    8 days ago

    Don’t mind me wrong, but looking at what Dubai is doing, I am not surprised Kim thinks people can forget about NK reality for a nice beach.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      8 days ago

      Hah! Good fucking point! Only thing I guess is that Dubai has a wonnnderful propaganda team winning over the hearts and minds of Western audiences, while NK has synchronized communist dancing events.

    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      213·
      9 days ago

      Anyone who goes there of their own free will should know that they could end up like Otto Warmbier at any time. No tears will be shed for them.

      • deadcream@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        20·
        9 days ago

        They are likely betting on Chinese/Russian tourists. No way Kim lays a finger on a PRC citizen.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          Also it’s curated to prevent them from seeing, the actual country side. It’s with minders

  • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
    161·
    8 days ago

    What kind of fucking idiot builds a highway between the hotels and the beach?

    Thats the fucking stupidest thing I have ever seen in my life. Who ever thought that was a good idea should be shot. It couldn’t be in a worse place.

      • morphballganon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 days ago

        Highways don’t have crosswalks, and drivers can expect to have very few stoplights (compared to freeways, which should have exactly 0 stoplights or pedestrians whatsoever).

        Streets can have frequent crosswalks and stoplights.

        Sooo having a street between hotels and a beach would be no biggie, since guests could safely cross it on foot, at a crosswalk.

        But with a highway there, you cannot safely cross on foot. No crosswalks. Or if there’s something that looks like a crosswalk, it sure wouldn’t feel safe to cross it.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    8 days ago

    Hear that conservatives?

    You can visit the country you’re trying to make our country look like.

    You can get a good long look at what your dipshittery leads to. But only if you have the balls to leave the resort.

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    161·
    9 days ago

    Interestingly, I’ve recently watched Real Life Lore’s video on the topic. It’s from 2 months ago and later in the video, it talks about the last batch of western foreigners that got in and how the regime almost immediately regretted letting them record and talk as much as they did.

    There was also a S. Korean resort ran by Hyundai, from 1998 to 2008, which got shut down and nationalized after an incident had the N. Koreans shoot and kill Park Wang-ja, a 53 year old woman.

  • pinheadednightmare@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    9 days ago

    Can you imagine being this disconnected on the world perception about yourself and how you run your country? Crazy.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      Kim was educated in Europe, not like he’s clueless about the outside world. Also, there’s such a thing as “poverty tourism”. (I forget the word.)

      • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        8 days ago

        He was educated in prestigious rich cunt schools in fucking Switzerland. He has zero clue about the outside world, the super rich don’t experience any of it, it’s all a sealed little political incest bubble.

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          All true, but my point was that he’s hardly been isolated in North Korea. He knows there’s an outside world, and to your point, knows how rich it can be.

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    151·
    9 days ago

    NK is a bad enough place to visit without worrying about everything. It’s the ultimate in mismanagement.

    Management says it must happen, so it happens, or we tell them it’s happened. When someone gets hurt because it actually didn’t happen, there’s a cover up.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    Some observers say this is an easy way for Pyongyang to earn money. While foreign tourists are allowed in, tour groups largely tend to come from China and Russia, countries with whom Pyongyang has long maintained friendly relations.