{"id":44119,"date":"2020-03-12T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=44119"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:50:59","slug":"north-korea-pushes-workers-finish-tourist-zone-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-pushes-workers-finish-tourist-zone-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea pushes workers to finish tourist zone by deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Military construction units at the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone are being pushed to speed up construction to meet the project\u2019s deadline of Apr. 15, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe military leadership is stressing that soldiers on construction teams follow the \u2018soldier spirit\u2019 to ensure construction is completed by Kim Il Sung\u2019s birthday [Apr. 15],\u201d a military source told Daily NK on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We\u2019re in the very last stage of construction now, so everyone is working really hard day and night,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cSoldiers on construction teams at the site have slept only about three hours a night.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source went on to explain that the military will need to send a report to the Central Committee of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea (WPK) by Apr. 15 confirming that the construction has been completed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the country\u2019s biggest tourism development projects, the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone began construction soon after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gained power in 2012.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim has visited the site multiple times to monitor progress and has stressed that the tourist zone will be key to \u201cdefy\u201d and \u201covercome\u201d international sanctions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, the project has taken on new importance in 2020 as North Korean leaders have linked development of the country\u2019s tourism industry with broader attempts at increasing the country&#8217;s self-reliance &#8211; efforts now enshrined in the recently-coined catchphrase &#8220;frontal breakthrough.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, amid slowed progress in construction on the site due to international sanctions, North Korean authorities have stressed \u201cstrengthening the quality of the buildings\u201d on the site. Essentially, they have warned that only buildings that have passed safety inspections will be deemed \u201ccomplete.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44120\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44120\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uac08\ub9c8\ud574\uc548\uc9c0\uad6c\ucd1d\ubc30\uce58\ub3c4-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"construction\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uac08\ub9c8\ud574\uc548\uc9c0\uad6c\ucd1d\ubc30\uce58\ub3c4-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uac08\ub9c8\ud574\uc548\uc9c0\uad6c\ucd1d\ubc30\uce58\ub3c4-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uac08\ub9c8\ud574\uc548\uc9c0\uad6c\ucd1d\ubc30\uce58\ub3c4-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uac08\ub9c8\ud574\uc548\uc9c0\uad6c\ucd1d\ubc30\uce58\ub3c4-696x429.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uac08\ub9c8\ud574\uc548\uc9c0\uad6c\ucd1d\ubc30\uce58\ub3c4-681x420.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/\uc6d0\uc0b0\uac08\ub9c8\ud574\uc548\uc9c0\uad6c\ucd1d\ubc30\uce58\ub3c4.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing all the construction projects in the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone. \/ Image: KCNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Military propaganda documents acquired by Daily NK, however, suggest that the authorities continue to place emphasis on speed over safety.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the documents, North Korean military authorities praise construction workers at the tourist zone for having completed a high-rise hotel in just 20 days. The emphasis on speed in the documents suggests that authorities are continuing to rush construction teams to finish their projects before or on Apr. 15.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe propaganda materials are used during educational sessions for construction workers,\u201d the military source told Daily NK. \u201cThe military officials who lead these sessions emphasize that the quick work the workers are doing will ensure the construction ends even earlier than the original deadline.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The military leadership is, in short, stressing a \u201csoldier mentality\u201d to encourage workers on the site to finish their projects quickly. The urgency demanded by military leaders, however, reveals just how anxious they are to achieve both quality and speed requirements &#8211; an impossible task.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SLOGGED DOWN BY LACK OF MATERIALS<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One reason construction at the site faces obstacles is due to the lack of materials, an issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/150000-workers-head-to-wonsan-kalma-coastal-tourist-zone-in-extreme-cold\/\">long reported<\/a> on by Daily NK. The lack of materials likely means that construction on the site will not be finished until long after Apr. 15, Daily NK sources said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cConstruction on the tourist zone won\u2019t be complete until at least Oct. 10 [the 75th anniversary of the founding of the WPK],\u201d Daily NK\u2019s military source told Daily NK.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe still have to complete 7,500 hectare residential and industrial zones in downtown Wonsan, hiking trails that stretch over the 1500 hectare Sogwang Temple, as well as other accommodation and landscaping projects to finish,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Development on the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone has been divided into three construction zones: downtown Wonsan, the Kalma peninsula, and Sogwangsa area. The 1400-hectare Kalma peninsula has been further subdivided into the accommodations zone, a zone for conferences and exhibitions, a zone for athletics, an entertainment zone, an economic development zone, and a zone for stores and restaurants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tourist zone\u2019s construction projects have been placed into three zones: Downtown Wonsan, the Kalma Peninsula, and Songwang Temple. The Kalma Peninsula, which covers approximately 1,400 hectares, includes zones for hotels, exhibitions, sports, recreation, economic development, and stores and restaurants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The regime has reportedly built various recreational facilities, including a theater, golf course, underwater and above-ground hotels, industrial complexes for science and technology and agricultural development in the Tunamsan zone, which lies within the Kalma Peninsula. Islands sitting off the Kalma Peninsula have also been turned into tourism sites. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20%EC%9D%BC-%EB%A7%8C%EC%97%90-%EC%9D%BC%EB%96%A0%EC%84%A0-%EA%B3%A0%EC%B8%B5-%ED%98%B8%ED%85%94-%E5%8C%97-%EC%9B%90%EC%82%B0%EA%B0%88%EB%A7%88-%EA%B1%B4%EC%84%A4%EC%97%90\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military construction units at the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone are being pushed to speed up construction to meet the project\u2019s deadline of Apr. 15, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe military leadership is stressing that soldiers on construction teams follow the \u2018soldier spirit\u2019 to ensure construction is completed by Kim Il Sung\u2019s birthday [Apr. 15],\u201d a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":44120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[863,140,691,848],"class_list":["post-44119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-tourism","tag-construction","tag-military","tag-wonsan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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