Kim Jong-un spends New Year's Eve skiing in his 'impeccable' resort The baby-faced dictator took a test ride on a ski lift at the Masik Pass Ski Resort, which he said during a visit two weeks ago was "at the centre of the world's attention." Opening the country's first ski resort was a priority for Swiss-educated Mr Kim, who had ordered that the resort be "world class." Featuring 70 miles of multilevel ski runs, a hotel, heliport and cable cars, the resort has been heavily promoted since Mr Kim visited it in June and called for construction to be completed by the end of the year. The young leader has shown a fondness for expensive, high-profile leisure projects in and around the showpiece capital Pyongyang including a massive new water park, an amusement park and a luxury horseback riding club. The Munsu Water Park in Pyongyang opened in October to much fanfare, with the 109,000-square metre venue sporting dozens of indoor and outdoor pools, water slides and saunas. Mr Kim in September also watched films at a new "4D" movie theatre built in the newly-renovated Rungna People's amusement park, state media reported earlier. He was photographed riding a roller coaster in the Rungna amusement park in Pyongyang when it reopened in July 2012.