North Korea opened its major ski resort
to boost its tourism industry this is in
line with the regime's leaders push for
self-reliance in the face of global
sanctions crippling Pyongyang's economy
I'm Jim updates us on the developments
in a bid to build a competitive tourism
industry which is one of the area's not
subject to sanctions North Korea's
state-run Korean Central News Agency
said the regime reportedly began this
year's operation of the masikryong ski
resort on Wednesday Kim jong-un's
birthday an expert says moshing young
ski resort which opened in december 2013
is one of the key projects that the
north korean leader is very interested
in as he is known to like skiing bashing
young ski resort shows to the
international community that the people
of North Korea enjoy sports and it can
be a representation of North Korea's
self-reliance amid sanctions the North's
state-run media also said Thursday that
young dog has green cultural recreation
center a new mountain spa resort is set
to open on Friday in a bid to attract
more foreign tourists meanwhile the
north state media emphasized
self-reliance in its food supply North
Korea's official newspaper new dimension
moon reported on Friday that the
regime's dignity and existence cannot be
maintained if self-reliance of food is
not ensured in the face of murderous
global sanctions it said that the regime
should increase its agricultural
production and safeguard a stable and
sufficient supply of food as a shortage
of rice could make asking for outside
help inevitable through self-reliance
the North has tried to show to the
international community that global
sanctions against North Korea are
useless Pyongyang said it had a record
harvest last year but observers say the
North is actually going through a food
shortage because of global sanctions and
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