Party Hearty Dudes! According to BusinessInsider North Korea announced plans to create a tourism zonenear a resort it recently expropriated from a South Korean firm that had temporarily shuttered it following an incident involving a communist soldier.
The Hyundai Asan group, which began ushering curious travelers across the border in 1998 after Kim Jong Il's government granted the firm a fifty-year monopoly on tours to the North, was providing a steady stream of much needed foreign capital until a soldier shot and killed a Seoul housewife in 2008.
Korea issued a ban on all travel to its cantankerous neighbor. North Korea cited that ban when it seized the company's facilities in the scenic region.
The former tourist hotspots in and around the Kumgang region have been left empty for years, but there had been hints that the North Korean government might develop the area, including signs showing rather severe looking vacation hamlets…..
There’s more where that came from. Read it at
http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-is-developing-a-massive-tourism-zone-2011-6
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