{"id":81213,"date":"2025-08-24T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/north-korea-opens-up-beach-resort-in-bid-to-boost-tourism-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:43:58","slug":"north-korea-opens-up-beach-resort-in-bid-to-boost-tourism-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/north-korea-opens-up-beach-resort-in-bid-to-boost-tourism-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea opens up beach resort in bid to boost tourism | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone has been welcoming some of its first visitors since being formally opened on 1 July.<br \/>\n <!--more--><br \/>\nBuilt near a missile testing site, the resort features hotels, restaurants, shopping malls and a water park, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>But while it was initially billed as being open to international tourists, so far only Russians, entering in groups and organised by accredited travel agencies, have been allowed in.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do the Russians who have been there think of it?<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#NorthKorea #Tourism #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone has been welcoming some of its first visitors since being formally opened on 1 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}