North Korea Has a Seemingly Harmless Plan to Get Ahead, But There’s a Dark Truth Behind It: Report

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It seems North Korea might be facing the same reality as the former Soviet Union regarding the long-term financial viability of Communist dictatorships.

It’s at least as good an explanation as any for the North Korean regime’s bizarre new plans to make North Korea a tourist destination. Yes, you read that right: North Korea wants to become a hot new tourist destination.

But why? And how?

According to a recent story from Metro, this grandiose plan began way back in 2017, after Kim Jong-Un and his officials were impressed by Benidorm, a popular tourist destination for Spaniards and British tourists alike, during a visit to Spain.

Beginning construction that same year in Wonsan, North Korea, the plans included everything from luxury hotels to an enormous series of water parks.

The hope was that this gigantic new resort would jumpstart North Korea’s flagging tourist industry and bring in those sweet, specifically British, tourist dollars.

Initially given a completion date of 2018 for the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone, the project quickly ran into some unfortunate roadblocks, as do many such grandiose projects in North Korea.

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