Here’s Kim Jong Un posing for photographs at a North Korean spa
SUMMARY
Kim Jong Un posed crosslegged for a photoshoot on the edge of a hot tub during a visit to North Korea's brand new spa town and tourist attraction.
Kim recently visited the under-construction Yangdok Country Hot Spring Resort, and found it "refreshing and reviving," Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Oct. 25, 2019.
Here are the photos.
Kim Jong Un visits the Yangdok County Hot Spring Resort, North Korea, released by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on Oct. 23, 2019.
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Kim Jong Un boiling eggs at North Korea's new Yangdok County Hot Spring Resort.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Yangdok County Hot Spring Resort, North Korea, in this undated picture released by North Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) on Oct. 23, 2019.
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Kim said Yangdok is "perfect match for the geographic characteristics and natural environment of the area," KCNA reported.
Kim also used his visit to slam South Korean facilities at resort on Mount Kumgang as "backward" and "hotchpotch," saying they should tear it down, Reuters reported.
Kim said North Korea's new spa contrasts starkly with that of South Korea's "architecture of capitalist businesses targeting profit-making from roughly built buildings."
Kim Jong Un posing on the side of a hot tub at North Korea's new Yangdok County Hot Spring Resort.
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Kim added the spa's purpose will be to serve "as a curative and recuperative complex."
Kim's sister and advisor Kim Yo Jong was also on the visit.
Kim Jong Un at North Korea's new Yangdok County Hot Spring Resort.
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Kim at the Yangdok resort.
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The Yangdok County Hot Spring Resort.
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Here's an aerial photo of the resort.
NK News reported that Kim was previously unhappy with, and criticized, the status of work on the project, "lamenting during an August 2018 visit that it had 'no excellent health complex that has been built properly in terms of sanitation and cultured practice as befitting recreational and recuperative facilities'."
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