{"id":72642,"date":"2025-06-26T13:47:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/26\/north-korea-beach-resort-wonsan-kalma"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:47:41","slug":"kim-jong-un-hails-new-north-korean-beach-resort-as-one-of-countrys-greatest-feats-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72642","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un hails new North Korean beach resort as one of country\u2019s \u2018greatest feats\u2019 this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader was accompanied by his daughter Kim Ju-ae, widely presumed to be his heir, at opening of Wonsan Kalma tourist zone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> is more accustomed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/14\/north-korea-missile-launch-was-new-kind-of-icbm-regime-says-as-first-images-emerge\">overseeing ballistic missile launches<\/a> and political purges, but this week the North Korean leader opted for a change of pace with a family visit to a new beach resort \u2013 the vanguard in a tourism drive that may one day include foreign visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, who had swapped his trademark Mao suit for a dark suit, white shirt and tie that matched the sandy expanse of Wonsan Kalma, hailed the coastal resort as one of the country\u2019s \u201cgreatest feats\u201d of the year, the state-run KCNA news agency said in a report issued on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/26\/north-korea-beach-resort-wonsan-kalma\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean leader was accompanied by his daughter Kim Ju-ae, widely presumed to be his heir, at opening of Wonsan Kalma tourist zoneKim Jong-un is more accustomed to overseeing ballistic missile launches and political purges, but this week the North &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72643,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72642\/revisions\/72643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}