AFP/Getty Images Masikryong, North Korea's first ski resort was built in 2013 and is touted as one of leader Kim Jong-un's key achievements. These images from February 2017 show what looks like a ...

The project, called the "North Korean Benidorm" by analogy with the famous Spanish resort, offers clean beaches, 'luxury ...

and went on to a ski resort near Wonsan. Nuclear-armed North Korea's political, military and cultural ties with Russia have deepened since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Tourism to the ...

and went on to a ski resort near Wonsan. Nuclear-armed North Korea's political, military and cultural ties with Russia have deepened since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Tourism to the ...

Images of North Korea's ski resort What's it like to live in North Korea? Life on the North Korean border So why has Kim Jong-un decided to construct these leisure facilities? One suggestion is ...

There is an airport nearby and a ski resort which North Korean authorities promoted before Covid. Foreigners are waiting to see if North Korea will allow them to return in 2025.

North Korea has dubbed Samjiyon its "'model of a highly-civilized mountain city' with new apartments, hotels, a ski resort and commercial, cultural and medical facilities," Reuters said.