Supreme leader Kim Jong-un hands skiers of North Korea a huge lift

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Supreme leader Kim Jong-un hands skiers of North Korea a huge lift

Young master takes test ride at country's gleaming new ski resort
and orders that opening ceremony be held forthwith

Conal Urquhart
The Guardian, Tuesday 31 December 2013 19.58 GMT

It may not have the fir-lined pistes and abundant glühwein of the Swiss resorts of Linden or Wichtracht, close to where Kim Jong-un was educated, but the North Korean leader's new ski resort at least has a ski lift.

In pictures released by the Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday, Kim can be seen riding the chair lift and admiring the empty pistes.

In August, Switzerland refused to supply machinery to North Korea in a £4.5m deal, describing it as a "propaganda" project, but North Korea has managed to acquire two ski lifts.

Kim took a test ride on one at the Masik Pass ski resort, which he said was "at the centre of the world's attention".

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/31/north-korea-ski-resort-kim-jung-un

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1. While his people go hungry. n/t

[Botany]

2. Kim Jung Un's fate might turn out like other dear leaders like Nicolae Ceauescu

People are starving in his country and he builds a ski resort?

I noticed from the the pix I saw on the "inter-nets" that they had no skiers on the slopes,
nobody in the hotel, and no heat in the rooms either. Kim's fate is all but a done deal.