Should you go visit North Korea's new tourist resort? In a word: No


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This picture provided by North Korea's state news agency KCNA shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (l) with his daughter Kim Ju Ae (M) and wife Ri Sol-ju (r) during an opening ceremony at the Wonsan-Kalma tourist area with water slides. — Photo: KCNA via YNA/dpa

North Korea's brand new international tourist landmark is a "brilliant fruition of the profound thinking" and a "world-class cultural resort" with slides, pools and definitely no food shortages. Don't go.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has inaugurated a massive tourism resort in the eastern coastal region of Wonsan Kalma.

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