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etuomaala@sopuli.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

North Korea to open beach resort as Kim Jong Un bets on tourism

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North Korea to open beach resort as Kim Jong Un bets on tourism

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etuomaala@sopuli.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago
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Wonsan Kalma opens to domestic tourists on 1 July, six years after it was due to be completed.
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    It will be a Trump hotel and MAGA nuts will go stay there.

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      Oh can we please make this happen?

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    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.

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    Wow, a vacation location I would like to visit even less than the US.

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      Idk, at least it would be interesting.

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    The middle east oil state meta claims another.

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    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.

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    At least they already have a tourism industry, not like Turkmenistan is doing it

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    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.

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    Perfect for East Russian newly made widows to recover from the shock of finding unexpected money on their bank account.

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    Fantastic news for ml! I’m sure they’ll visit in droves.

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      Lets finance that.

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        I’ll buck in a kick.

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

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      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.)

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        Slum Tourism.

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        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.

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          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.

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    Otto Warmbier

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    Does anyone even go to North Korea? Is that like a thing?

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      A few people have, but it’s not common. https://abcnews.go.com/International/prominent-americans-met-north-korean-leaders/story?id=53635089

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      Yes!

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      They do have a tourism industry, composed of ideological “true believers” (not that big of a group), tourists wanting to experience the unique culture out of curiosity (or - in the more recent years - also to produce social media content), and tourists interested in the unique architecture.

      In the overwhelming amount of cases, it also goes well enough, because it is a welcome avenue to get foreign currency for them, and despite what some may believe, the state is still fully within the dynamics of capital accumulation. (Other examples are: contractors in construction, where they have unique know-how in monumental constructions, which is also one of the places where the exploitation of their populace as wage labourers can become visible to the outside world - and selling stamps and other collectibles in demand for being “exotic” as they are from NK.)

      But then, every now and again, you have cases like Otto Warmbier.

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    When does construction of a Trump Tower there begin?

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    I tried to go, but had funny pictures of the vice supreme leader and wasn’t allowed in the country…

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      Should have told him “Thank You”.

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      Surprised pikachu x Vance Photoshopped

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      America or North Korea, both shit hole countries I’ll avoid

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    Kim Jong Un bets on tourism

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      Context?

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

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