Bizarre images surfaced out of North Korea this week when communist dictator Kim Jong-un attended an event marking the renovation of the Onpho Working People’s Holiday Camp, a hot spring complex featuring hot soaking pools and sauna facilities.
The splashy state propaganda coverage celebrating the Onpho hot spring camp appears to be part of an increasingly active effort by the Kim regime to rebrand the impoverished tyranny into a desirable vacation destination. In addition to the hot springs, Kim Jong-un’s tenure has been marked by the construction of a massive ski and winter sports resort and the development of the beachfront in Wonsan. North Korea has generated minor, though not insignificant, profits from tourism for decades, though its status as a destination took a significant
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