North Korea's Kim and daughter tour lavish new mountain resort

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter opened a lavish new mountain resort complete with "cosy" leisure spaces, barbecue restaurants and hot tubs, state media said Tuesday. The new facility in Samjiyon in the country's mountainous north is an attractive mountainous tourist resort and leisure ground for the people.

Kim toured bedrooms of hotels, cosy leisure spaces and commercial and public catering facilities. Among the facilities on show were both indoor and outdoor baths, as well as barbecue restaurants.  And he declared the area to be an "innovative and highly civilized city representing the tourism culture of the country.