00:04North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un cut the inaugural tape on Tuesday,
00:13with Pyongyang saying the country's new Wonsan-Kalamat coastal tourist zone
00:17will usher in a new era in its tourism industry.
00:23Kim visited the four-kilometer stretch, the country's biggest tourist site,
00:27with his wife and daughter. Construction began in 2018.
00:33Now, years later, it has accommodation and distractions for up to 20,000 people.
00:38The country's state news agency said,
00:41The transformation of the Wonsan-Kalamat area, a great auspicious event of the whole country,
00:47is a brilliant fruition of the profound thinking and inexhaustible efforts of the respected comrade Kim Jong-un.
00:53Kim is more often associated internationally with appearances overseeing ballistic military launches.
01:00These latest images, however, do not suggest an opening up of the country.
01:05The first domestic tourists will visit from the 1st of July.
01:08Russian officials say the first Russian tour to the site will take place a few days later.
01:12With the number of foreign visitors severely restricted,
01:17any American tours to the site are highly unlikely,
01:20though the U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed hopes of reviving dialogue with Pyongyang.
01:26On his inauguration day, the 20th of January,
01:29Trump boasted about his ties with Kim, saying,
01:31I think he has tremendous condo capabilities, he's got a lot of shoreline,
01:36a likely reference to Wonsan-Kalma.
01:38North Korea has repeatedly rejected Washington and Seoul's dialogue offers
01:44and focused instead on expanding its nuclear weapons program
01:47since Kim's nuclear diplomacy with Trump collapsed in 2019.
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