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North Korean Prime Minister Kim Duk-hun called for building a modern and comprehensive international tourism zone in the Mt. “Geumgang” region on the country’s east coast.
The North Korean Central News Agency said that the Prime Minister stressed the need to build the tourist area on “our own way that combines national character and modernity, while achieving harmony with the landscape of the Diamond Mountain, to transform the famous mountain of the nation into a mountain known for serving the people, and a cultural resort that the world will envy Entire”.
The tour program to Mt. Geumgang was launched in 1998, and was one of the major cooperation projects between the two Koreas, until it was suspended in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a North Korean guard.
In September 2018, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to resume the tour program to Mt. Geumgang once conditions were met.
However, North Korea has sought to turn the region into an international tourist area, since the leader of this country ordered the removal of all facilities built by South Korea, which he described as “of an unpleasant outlook,” and said that his country should not depend on Seoul for construction and development.
Source: Yonhap Agency
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