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Gleaming hotels and empty beaches, a look inside North Korea’s seaside resort

A fake Starbucks, Ikea lookalike products and a seaside resort fully stocked for tourists. CNN’s Will Ripley talks to some of the first international travelers to visit North Korea since the Covid-19 pandemic to find out what they saw.

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