North Korea’s Benidorm Style Resort meets the first Russian tourists

A new beach resort in North Korea, criticized by human rights groups for the harsh treatment of construction workers, welcomed Russian tourists this week.

Wonan was the remnant resort Opened in a large ceremony last month North Korea’s leader Kim Jong UN, who greeted the “world-class tourist and cultural space” Kim Jong UN.

The details of this resort are confidentially hidden in a country, mainly in the foreign world.

BBC Verulia Satellite has received internal planning documents, and experts and former North Korean insiders spoke about their concerns on violation of human rights during the development of the site.

Kim Jong spent most of the UN youth in Wonsanda and became a popular holiday in the city’s elite in the new resort building.

“When Wonsan Tourist Region is originally planned … The idea was to attract a million tourists in the area,” said Ri Jong Ho, North Korea economic officer, a million Korean economic officials in the early planning stages of the resort and in 2014.

“The intention was to open a little North Korea.”

One year before the construction of the construction in 2017, who sent a staff with a mission that found a fact for Spain, which toured the team’s Benidorm resort.

The North Korean delegation said, “High rank politicians and many architects who take a large number of notes.”

The North Korean brochure, which is a resort map, along the beach front, as well as 43 hotels on the guest houses and camp sites on the artificial lake.

We have adapted these places with high-resolution satellite images, although we cannot verify that they are really finished.

Unfortunately, the water park completed with yellow water slides, withdraws from the beach.

In addition, there is a fun quarter in the north, a theater, recreation and fitness centers and the buildings established in the plan as a movie.

In early 2018, the satellite footage, which was taken over 18 months, reveals dozens of buildings that lie on the coastline of 4km (2.5 miles).

According to the end of 2018, SIA Analysts in South Korea, according to the research conducted by the SI ANALYSIS, 80% of the resort was completed.

However, after this hurricane construction efforts, it seems that the site stands after the work.

This rapid construction pace has created concerns about the treatment of those working on the site.

UN, North Korea, especially employees, often stressed the compulsory suction system used by “shock brigades” facing harsh conditions, long hours, long hours and insufficient compensation.

The UN Human Rights Department of the UN Human Rights Manual has information that the resort uses their use of shocking brigades.

“We also saw that people work 24 hours a day, which sounds like a shocking brigade.”

The BBC served in shocking brigades and said he was a North Korea, which manages shocking brigades.

Cho Chung Hui, who was later flawless, was not involved in the construction of Wonsan Resort, and he reminded the cruel conditions of the brigades he bragged.

“Whatever the principle behind them, this should be completed, although your life is over,” he said.

“I saw that it was so much physical tension and that the periods were completely stopped.”

Kang Gyuri, who worked in Wonsanda before escaping South Korea in 2023, said he was voluntary for the citizens who were relied on the construction of the country as a way to the capital, which is allocated for citizens entrusted.

“He could have difficulty sleeping. We gave them enough to eat,” he said.

“The institutions are not properly organized, some people will die only when they work, and they are not responsible for the deaths.”

Ms. Kang, as well as the residents of the residents in Wonsan, often said that they are often expelled from their homes, as compensated.

Although Mrs. Kang practice was not inherent, the BBC was able to check the creation of buildings near the main road through satellite analysis. The larger tower blocks appear now in their place.

“They just knock everything and build something new, especially in a good place,” said MS Kang.

“The problem is how unfair people are unable to speak or challenge.”

The BBC appealed to North Korean officials for comment.

North Korea has almost completely closed for foreign guests in the few highly controlled tours permitted to visit the country in recent years.

Wonsan Kalma plays an important role as a closer zoom in Pyongyang, as a means of strengthening the sanctioned country with patient economic fortunes, as well as Pyongyang military support For the war of Moscow in Ukraine.

According to the early planning documents confirming the BBC, the initial goal was to attract more than a million visitors, foreign tourists are expected to come from China and Russia.

We scanned for any list that promotes new resort visits in both China and Russia and Russia.

None of the Chinese agencies we checked was advertising for Wonsan. But in Russia, we introduced the three entities that entered Wonsan Kalma.

In early July, we presented one of the Russian agencies as a customer interested in the first scheduled march on July 7, and said that 12 people attracted 12 people from Russia.

Wonsan Resort has been for three days, including North Korea’s long visit to $ 1800 (£ 1,300) – This is 60% more than the average monthly salary in Russia.

According to this tour operator, two visitors are planned in August.

We contacted the other two agencies offering similar tour packages, but they refused to explain how many people signed.

Andrei Lankov, a specialist in the Russian-North Korean relations in Seoul, Wonsan Kalma, Wonsan Kalma, was “serious popular with Russian guests.”

“Russian tourists can easily go to places such as Turkey, Egypt, Thailand, Thailand and Vietnam, and North Korea can go farther from all over the place,” he said.

“Service standards are higher and are not constant control.”

Yaroslava added addition by Kiryukhina, Yi Ma and Cristina Cuevas. Graphics by Sally Nicholls and Erwan Rivault.