Recently inaugurated in North Korea, ‘1,700 euros per week’
Desert beaches and few tourists, all Russians, at the Wonsan-Kalma Resort: the mega complex on the sea in North Korea, inaugurated in June by the leader Kim Jong-un, to make it an international holiday resort.
A SkyNews service collects the testimony and videos shot on the spot by a 33 -year -old Russian manager, Anastasiya Samsonova. In the videos you can see a long sandy beach with dozens of beds, completely empty. The same goes for the hotel hall and the dining room, deserted.
“The hotel is absolutely new – says Anastasiya -. Everything is done very well, beautiful interior, very advanced infrastructures. There are a lot of prejudices about what you can do and not to do in North Korea, as you need to behave. But to tell the truth, we felt absolutely free”.
Moscow and Pyongyang have strengthened their alliance on the occasion of the war in Ukraine. North Korea provided ammunition to the neighbor, then sent a shipping body to reject the Ukrainian invasion in Kursk. Russia has directed many of its productions towards the “hermit state” that it can no longer sell in the West.
Last month a direct flight between Moscow and Pyongyang was inaugurated. SkyNews interviewed an investigation by the Vosopk Ontur travel agency in the Russian capital, Irina Kobeleva, who began to sell the holidays in the new resort. A week at Wonsan-Kalma costs around 1,700 euros, excluding flight.
“Our tourists are mainly elderly people who want to return to the times of the USSR – explains Kobeleva -, because there is the feeling that North Korea is very similar to the Soviet Union. But at the same time, there is a growing question among young people. We have 400 reservations per month”.
