Wonsan Kalma opens to domestic tourists on 1 July, six years after it was due to be completed.
  • khaleer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    43·
    4 days ago

    Don’t mind me wrong, but looking at what Dubai is doing, I am not surprised Kim thinks people can forget about NK reality for a nice beach.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      4 days ago

      Hah! Good fucking point! Only thing I guess is that Dubai has a wonnnderful propaganda team winning over the hearts and minds of Western audiences, while NK has synchronized communist dancing events.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • Jack@slrpnk.netEnglish
    94·
    5 days ago

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

  • trepX@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

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

  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    Just imagine all the opportunities for bankruptcy! The orange turd is getting turned on!

  • NotAGamer@lemmy.orgEnglish
    32·
    5 days ago

    Only a moron would want to visit North Korea where Kim Jung Un will have you killed for saying anything negative about him or the country.

        • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          5 days ago

          We’re there now. Im indigenous Central American but live in Canada. I have tattoos, and a ton of anti trump stuff on my phone. If I tried to enter the us I would immediately get hauled off and tossed in a gulag, back to a Central American shithole like where I started

    • Cyclist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      I’d love to go there, and Iran, but I’m not stupid. The foreign culture would be amazing.

        • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
          15·
          5 days ago

          I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and respond to your 4-word insult comment, because I think it’s important and I’m assuming you either didn’t realize that OP is saying they currently won’t go there because of the political situation, or you’re saying that the existence of the current political situation completely erases any potential historical or cultural value the people and the country may have or have ever had or ever will have and that’s a really awful thing to say and I can’t imagine how someone could have that attitude without intentional hyperbole unless they’re being a disgustingly intolerant bigot.

          Iran is a beautiful country, in most of its history it was Persia. They were fierce warriors yes but also academics and scholars. They provided the foundation of modern astronomy and mathematics and were a beacon of civilization and education. We literally use “arabic” numbers today because of them. There is beautiful architecture, beautiful geography, beautiful wildlife in Iran and none of that had any choice about the government. There are wonderful people there, including ones who protest the regime and fight for democracy and human rights.

          The modern tyrannical islamofascist government sucks and of course nobody should go there now or at any foreseeable point in the future, but it’s not stupid to want to go there, and if they had a safe, friendly democratic nation (which it should be pointed out many of the people in Iran and who have fled Iran’s current regime would also like) I absolutely would love to visit too. I’m less interested in North Korea, personally, but I can understand that it might appeal to others and there might be interesting places and things and people there too that I’m just not interested in or don’t know about. I would also love to go to Russia too. Again, I would only do that without the government or the bad parts of their culture, but I still love many of the parts of their history and culture. I don’t hate the people or the land. I hate the evil governments and the shitty cultural attitudes.

          Try not to have shitty cultural attitudes yourself, appreciate and avoid invalidating the good parts of other people’s cultures, and it will help the world to be a better place where we can all get along.

          • NotAGamer@lemmy.orgEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            I made my point that only a complete idiot would “vacation” in North Korea under it current political leadership.

            • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              4 days ago

              You need to work on your reading comprehension then, because as I said:

              OP’s comment is clearly saying they currently won’t go there because of the political situation. That’s why they said “BUT I’m not stupid”. They are agreeing that it would be stupid to go there now, that’s why their statement of wanting to go there is made conditional on a “but” that is false.

              Like saying, “I love spicy food and I wish I could eat a whole ghost pepper at once, BUT I’m not stupid [implied: so I WON’T eat a whole ghost pepper at once]”

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          12·
          5 days ago

          Watch the Anthony Bourdain “Parts Unknown” episode about Iran for some perspective without the propaganda… Just like the US, the government is awful, but the people, in general, seem wonderful.

          I would hope that people from other countries would give me the benefit of the doubt that myself and every other American aren’t pieces of shit just because our government is literally evil.