North Korea to Promote International Tourism in 2024
|With North Korea wanting to reopen international tourism I guess we will see who will be the next western fool to get detained in 2024:
If there is anything different this year, it would be a policy emphasis on fostering its tourism industry, according to experts, Monday.
“North Korea had already focused on promoting its tourism industry before the coronavirus pandemic forced it to stop it all,” Kang Chae-yeon, a North Korean refugee-turned-scholar at the National Institute for Unification Education, told The Korea Times. “Next year, efforts to attract foreign visitors will be back on track.”
In a sign of gearing up for such efforts, North Korea adopted a new law in August to “vitalize and expand” its tourism industry, according to its state media.
Under the young leader, North Korea stepped up efforts to develop tourist sites, promoting “world-class” vacation properties across the country, including Samjiyon, a city situated near Mount Paektu, and Wonsan, a port city situated on the East Sea.
Korea Times
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Didn’t they shoot a woman to death for walking on a beach? Warmbier sort of caused his own troubles by trying to steal/deface a poster; but IIRC, the lady was just walking on a beach outside her hotel…