North Korea is set to start a massive construction project near the scenic Mount Geumgangsan area as part of the country’s plan to develop the area as a “world-famous” tourist site, according to a North Korean magazine Tuesday. “North Korea will build tourist objects step by step in the special Mount Geumgangsan tour zone,” Oh Chung-hyuk, president of a North Korean developer of the mount resort area, was quoted as saying by the June issue of the monthly North Korean Geumsugangsan magazine. “Extensive development will be carried out in the entire special area in the near future and (the place) will be well prepared as an international tourist zone,” the president said in an interview story in the publicity magazine obtained by Yonhap News Agency. (Yonhap News)
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