The Daily Mirror claims the secretive country’s leader Kim Jong-un has ordered a Benidorm-style resort be built after a fact-finding mission that began at the French border and continued south to Alicante.

A delegation was said to be so impressed by Benidorm and particularly its Terra Mitica theme park that a recommendation has been made to construct a similar resort at Wonsan, a port city on the country’s east coast.

A spokesperson for the North Korean embassy in Madrid told the Mirror that the delegation loved the theme park’s recreation of Mediterranean civilisations.

“It would be very interesting to apply that concept in our theme park, maybe with Asian civilisations,” the spokesperson said.

Despite Benidorm’s high-rise hotels, the delegation was apparently more taken with the resort’s camp sites, seeing it as a low-cost way to develop tourism.