Along North Korea's eastern coast, a vast beach resort has quietly become one of the country's most ambitious domestic leisure projects — a place where tens of thousands of citizens gather daily beneath a carefully managed sky. The Wonsan Kalma resort, open since mid-2025, reflects a government investing in the pleasures of its own people while keeping the wider world at arm's length. It is a modern space shaped by an ancient tension: the desire to project prosperity inward, and the fear of what openness outward might invite.