New resort gets Kim Jong Un's seal of approval

NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter opened a lavish new mountain resort complete with “cosy” leisure spaces, barbecue restaurants and hot tubs, state media said yesterday.

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The new facility in Samjiyon in the country’s mountainous north is an “attractive mountainous tourist resort and leisure ground for the people’, Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

Kim toured “bedrooms of hotels, cosy leisure spaces and commercial and public catering facilities”, KCNA said.

Images in state media showed Kim accompanied by his daughter, who analysts say is called Ju-ae and is his likely heir, touring the hotels. Among the facilities were both indoor and outdoor baths, and barbecue restaurants. Kim even tested the firmness of the beds.