Dan Patitucci
The Great Pleasure Project, SKI Magazine
The Munsu Water Park. The Great Pleasure Project. February 2014. Starvation, arbitrary arrest, prison camps, torture. This is North Korea, home to arguably the worst human-rights record in the world. And now it’s also home to a $100 million luxury ski resort, a “pleasure project” of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s. Dubious endeavor? Indeed. Our correspondents are among the first ever to ride its lifts. Here, they visit another costly Kim Jong-un “pleasure project,” the Munsu Water Park. Meanwhile, only 16 percent of households have “acceptable food consumption,” according to a 2013 World Food Programme report.
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