Chongsu Tourist Zone
Chongsu Tourist Zone Opens in DPRK
Pyongyang, November 1, 2014 (KCNA) -- A ceremony took place on Thursday to open the Chongsu Tourist Zone in the DPRK to visitors.
The Chongsu Tourist Zone is an economic zone to be developed under the July 23, Juche 103 (2014), decree of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, which covers some parts of Pangsan-ri and Chongsong Workers' District in Sakju County, North Phyongan Province. Its total area is more than 3 800 hectares.
The work for opening the zone has been pushed ahead under the cooperation between DPRK's North Phyongan Provincial People's Committee and China's Liaoning Province, Dandong City People's Government and Dandong Overseas Travel Co. Ltd.
According to Kwak Jin Ho, director of the Economic Zone Development Department of the North Phyongan Provincial People's Committee, the zone will turn into a tourist development zone equipped with modern facilities.
Its development project includes the construction of tourist service establishments and supply bases such as cultural recreation district, Korean folk village, folk hotel and production bases for specialties, livestock and marine products and fruits. Hillocks of the zone will be changed into orchards of high-yielding fruit trees as a tourist destination.
Half-day or one-day tour is mainly encouraged in the zone while its development going on as it is located in a frontier. The tourist destinations will include Chongsu and Youlgol revolutionary sites associated with activities of Kim Hyong Jik, an indomitable revolutionary fighter, and Chongsong Bridge used during the 1950-1953 Korean War.
The tourism in the zone will provide an international tourist link between Chongsu and Dandong, China.