{"id":72778,"date":"2025-07-07T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2025\/jul\/07\/kim-jong-un-opens-beach-resort-north-korea-in-pictures"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:00:02","slug":"kim-jong-un-opens-pet-project-beach-resort-in-north-korea-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72778","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong-un opens pet project beach resort in North Korea \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has opened a massive resort area on its east coast. The tourism pet project of the leader, Kim Jong-un, is reportedly due to welcome Russian guests later this month. Labelled \u2018North Korea\u2019s Waikiki\u2019 by South Korean media, Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist area can accommodate nearly 20,000 people, according to Pyongyang, which has described it as \u2018a world-class cultural resort\u2019<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2025\/jul\/07\/kim-jong-un-opens-beach-resort-north-korea-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea has opened a massive resort area on its east coast. The tourism pet project of the leader, Kim Jong-un, is reportedly due to welcome Russian guests later this month. Labelled \u2018North Korea\u2019s Waikiki\u2019 by South Korean media, Wonsan Kalma coast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"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":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72778","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72779,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72778\/revisions\/72779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}