The resort dubbed "North Korean Benidorm" is now abandoned and filled with excrement

The station was to be built near the town of Wonsan and received its nickname after Kim Jong-un allegedly sent a fact-finding mission to the Costa Blanca Spanish in 2017

'North Korean Benidorm' is filled with abandoned and unfinished hotels (

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A resort town dubbed 'North Korea's Benidorm' is now filled with excrement after its abandoned, unfinished hotels were overrun by homeless people.

The resort was to be built near the town of Wonsan and was given its nickname after Kim Jong-un reportedly sent a fact-finding mission to Spain's Costa Blanca in 2017.

But the dictator's completion deadline was too ambitious, slipping from April to October 2019 and then back to April 2020 before work halted during the pandemic.

And now locals have revealed that the site, which was once used for missile testing, is filled with excrement and overrun with "kkotjebi" - a North Korean term for the homeless.

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Photos show the resort during Kim's visit in April 2019 (

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"Buildings are no different from toilets, with stools left by kkotjebi everywhere," one person told Daily NK, a South Korea-based newspaper.

A source from Kangwon province, which Wonsan is part of, added, "Buildings without doors have become gathering points for kkotjebi, and now they are full of human waste and soot from the fires. And who's gonna clean this up?

"Ultimately, the people of Kangwon Province will be mobilized, and labor and money will be wasted on a project when no one knows when it will open or whether tourists will actually come."

Photos from April 2019 show Kim Jong-un personally inspecting the compound. The tyrant is seen smiling as he passes high-rise hotels and admires the view from one of the many private villas built directly over the water.