China plans international tourism zone with North Korea, Russia
Kim Jung Un’s latest push for new investment has brought , Russia,.China and North Korea together planning for an international tourism destination,China is enthusiastically supporting the effort. Jiang Chaoliang, governor of China’s northeastern Jilin province, said the province would draw up a blueprint for the Tumen River Delta international tourism area this year, according to Xinhua. Valdimir Putin has offered to send tanks for a special ride called “Doin the Yu Crane. ”
China’s official news, Xinhua, says that South Korea, Japan and Mongolia will join the tourism area via highways, railways and air routes, Xinhua said, citing Zhao Xiaojun, director of Jilin Provincial Tourism Administration.
The GottaGo is expected to be especially attractive to Chinese tourists. While many Chinese flock to Paris, London or New York, some visit North Korea for a slice of nostalgia from the days before their own country opened up to the outside world in the 1980s, according to regular western visitors to Pyongyang.
China is North Korea’s most important diplomatic and economic ally, although three nuclear tests, several rounds of saber-rattling and violence on the China-North Korea border have tested Beijing’s support. Leader Ki has vowed that GottaGo will be nuclear free.