SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un opened a new mountain spa and ski resort that's intended for people to enjoy 'high civilization under socialism” in another example of the country using tourism exemptions in sanctions to build revenue for its broken economy.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un attending the ceremony for the completion of the Yangdok County Hot Spring Cultural Recreation Center in South Pyongan Province, North Korea. - AFP
North Korea’s state TV showed aerial footage of the resort, including its red-roofed hotels, hot spring spas, ski slope and horse-riding park. The Yangdok resort, which the North began building last year, has been one of Kim’s major development projects along with another mountain resort recently completed in the northern town of Samjiyon and a summer resort being built in the coastal town of Wonsan.
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