Kim Jong Un opened luxurious tourist complex with his daughter (and tested the firmness of the beds)

The mountain resort, which Kim considered “a clear proof of the ideal of constant growth” and “the rise of the people of North Korea”, is located near the border with China.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-unopened this Tuesday a luxurious mountain tourist complex, with five hotels, “welcoming” leisure spaces, restaurants and jacuzzis, reported the North Korean state press.

According to the official KCNA news agency, the new Samjiyonlocated in the mountainous region of the north of the country, will function as an “attractive mountain and tourist complex leisure place for the people”.

According to the agency, Kim Jong-un toured “hotel rooms, cozy leisure spaces and commercial and public catering facilities”.

The images released show the North Korean leader with her daughter, Ju-aewhich according to analysts will probably be its successorvisiting hotels and even test the firmness of the beds.

Kim Ju-ae, who will be between 15 and 16 years old, with her father in 2022, during a test of North Korea’s largest intercontinental ballistic missile. However, the launch was overshadowed by the young North Koreanwhose existence was not then confirmedand whose presence was seen as an indication that Kim had already decided on his succession.

According to the AFP agency, Kim Jong-un presented the new mountain tourist complex as “clear proof of ideal of constant growth” of the country and “the development potential” of the State.

According to the official press, the new facilities demonstrate that the North Korean people is the “most worthy” and has “nothing to envy the rest of the world”.

Tourism in North Korea remains a strictly controlled activity, limited mainly to government-approved tourswhich only offer controlled glimpses of life in the country, probably the most isolated in the world.

But, according to , Kim Jong-un is strongly committed in boosting tourism, and the opening of the new hotels in Samjiyon follows the launch of the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone earlier this year.

“Samjiyon’s main target audience is foreignersbut visits to Samjiyon can also serve as a reward for ‘production units‘ of workers,” said Peter Wardresearcher at the Sejong Institute, in Seoul, told AFP.

Samjiyon tem um strong symbolism in North Korean propagandaas it is located close to Mount Paektu, the highest point on the Korean peninsula, where, according to official versions, Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-un, Il.

However, historians claim that the predecessor of the current North Korean dictator born in the former Soviet Union.