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Estelle Nilsson-Julien

As North Korea opens new tourism resort, which foreign tourists is it hoping to attract?

North Koreans swam and rode water slides at a newly opened mammoth beach resort which can accommodate nearly 20,000 people, state media reported on Wednesday.

Despite restrictions which largely ban foreign tourists from entering the country, leader Kim Jong Un has been seeking to boost tourism to his country, in a bid to improve the struggling economy.

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