Crackpot Kim Jong-un plots to rebrand North Korea as a tourist hot-spot with a 2017 calendar packed with leggy flight attendants
The North Korean leader appears to have ordered his country’s airline staff to wear shorter shirts as part of the nation's makeover
NORTH Korean leader Kim Jong-un is showcasing his country as a tourist hot-spot with a 2017 calendar packed with leggy flight attendants.
The nation’s official calendar – which usually shows historic landmarks and rural scenes – features the national airline Air Koryo this year.
Kim recently ordered his country’s airline staff to join the thigh-high club – by wearing shorter shirts.
The despot personally oversaw a make-over of the national airline’s frumpy uniforms and demanded the all-female trolley dollies show a lot more leg.
Now cabin staff on Air Koryo strut their stuff in the aisles in sexy figure-hugging blue uniforms with short skirts and heels instead of the out-dated red outfits they had worn for years.
And they feature in this year’s official calendar handed out by the regime.
The cover of the new and people-friendly calendar is printed with "Happy New Year" in English and shows a group of smiling pilots and flight attendants.
A source told Yonhap News: "It is the first time a North Korean calendar carries photos of female flight attendants, way different from previous calendars that mostly carried bland photos of scenic views and cultural sites."
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In all, the flight attendants appear in nine of the monthly photos. They appear in action on a plane, walking across the tarmac, through a terminal building and in one photo pulling pints in a bar in Pyongyang airport.
Another source added: “Discussion about the new calendar is becoming a trending topic.
“It's been speculated that North Korea is promoting tourism to improve its economic condition, as international trade sanctions have been imposed upon the country over its nuclear and missile programs.”
Ministers reportedly asked their neighbours to refrain from referring to the chunky Swiss cheese fan as Jin San Pang or ‘Kim Fatty III’ in media or conversations.
In a New Year message, the portly dictator claimed his country is in the "final stages" of launching a mass-killing long-range missile.
In a terrifying televised speech to North Korea, the fridge-raiding despot declared that the sulky communist country is close to launching a deadly intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
He said: “Research and development of cutting edge arms equipment is actively progressing and ICBM rocket test launch preparation is in its last stage.”
Since coming to power in 2011, 32-year-old Kim has ramped up North Korea’s nuclear program.
In 2016, Kim conducted two nuclear tests sparking concerns among the hermit country’s neighbours.
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