THERE’S nothing like a holiday by the seaside, on the ski slopes — or enjoying a tour of a totalitarian regime’s vanity projects.
But that’s just what tourists to North Korea can expect.
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A four-day trip to the closed state next month is sold out.
Travellers will be able to visit Kim Il Sung Square in capital Pyongyang, where rallies of up to 100,000 party faithful are held, the unfinished Ryugyong Hotel, known as the Hotel of Doom, other memorials and monuments, and a Stalinist era railway station.
They will then be whisked off to the Masikryong ski resort and Wonsan-Kalma beach complex.
The £600 trip includes return flights and internal transfers.
Officials hope the holiday will boost tourism to the state, run by dumpy despot Kim Jong Un — known for machine-gunning his political rivals to death.
But sunbathers may be put off by barbed wire on the beaches intended to deter invasion by bitter enemy South Korea.
The upcoming tour is available only to Russians and 100 people have applied to join it.
Natalia Zinina, of Vladivostok travel firm Vostok Intur, said: “Our goal is to demonstrate the magnificent area of Wonsan to the public, travel agents and journalists.”
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