Posted on 11/10/2024 11:57:20 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Reclusive North Korea sealed itself off at the start of the pandemic in early 2020, and started to scale back restrictions only in the middle of last year.
North Korea has only allowed Russian tourists to enter the country since early 2024, amid warming ties between the two nations.
So far just Samjiyon has been officially confirmed but we think that Pyongyang and other places will open too!!!" Shenyang's KTG Tours wrote on its Facebook page on Wednesday.
Beijing's Koryo Tour said tourists could "potentially" visit other parts of North Korea in December.
"Having waited for over four years to make this announcement, Koryo Tours is very excited for the opening of North Korean tourism once again," it said Wednesday on its website.
Koryo Tours told the BBC that the North Korean authorities were allowing tourists from any country to join the trips, apart from South Korea. However, the US bans its citizens from travelling to North Korea.
Chad O'Carroll, CEO of US-based analysis firm Korea Risk Group, flagged doubts around the reopening announcement.
"I will believe it when I see it," he told the BBC. "For now, I am quite sceptical we will see any real movement in December."
Samjiyon has been undergoing major redevelopment in recent years, with Mr Kim revealing plans in July to rebuild its airport, convert a military ski base into a resort, and build new railways and hotels for foreign tourists, according to state media.
KCNA reported in July that the Mount Paektu-Samjiyon zone was envisioned to be a “four-season mountainous tourist area to meet the cultural and emotional needs of the people on the highest level and revitalise international tourism.”
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A great place to visit, bring your own snacks and a space heater.
Touring there? More like the tour that turns into a kidnapping, with a very expensive ransom.
I doubt 47 will trade them spies to get your ass back.
Absolute horror of a place. The tourists should be invasion troops... the population there is Orwellian in monolithic Pavlovian lockstep. Starving to death and they send troops to dress in Russian uniforms and fight to take Ukraine. Those troops sent are eating better now than they ever were- and if they try to desert— will be shot.
Trump scared North Korea into becoming a tourist mecca. I’ll book my trip there on one of those giant floating apartment buildings so I can go party at the Poon Tang Hard Rock Cafe.
I do recall Trump proposing to Rocket Man that he develop N Korea into a tourism mecca.
Would love to shove all those commies who pledged to leave if Trump won to North Korea.
Pyongyang, a total Potemkin Village, is the only place tourists are allowed to visit and home to top government officials and a civilian population of basically actors.
North Koreans who were not hand selected to live in Pyongyang are not allowed to even enter Pyongyang.
What nobody wants is to destabilize the place, since the result would be millions of refugees pouring into China and South Korea.
I’ve been waiting for this!
One of my main reasons for voting Trump was so I could finally take my long delayed dream vacation on the Pyongyang Riviera
Jackpot !
True. and the country is one giant coal mine full export product entirely to Chi-Coms power plants (not worried about climate change the Chi-Coms who insist it about all of their current and future serf states).
**What nobody wants is to destabilize the place, since the result would be millions of refugees pouring into China and South Korea.**
It would be awesome.
I’ve traveled a lot. The only place I really wanted to go and never did is St. Petersburg, Russia. It’s gorgeous, has fabulous architecture, canals, and one of the best art museums in the world.
North Korea has what? Who will sign up for a tour? Masochists? True Commie believers like Kamalala and Walz? May they’ll become NK tour guides now that they have time.
North Korea has what?
A lot of statues of Kim-Il Sung, Kim Jong-Il, and Kim Jong-Un.
lol
“The only place I really wanted to go and never did is St. Petersburg, Russia. It’s gorgeous, has fabulous architecture, canals, and one of the best art museums in the world”
I made it there, was one of the most interesting places I have visited. Never had it on my list but got offered a cheap trip an took it.
Bus ride from central part of the city to Catherine Palace was amazing. Started with old Czarist buildings, then Soviet stuff, then more modern, then passing area where WW2 front lines were.
“ convert a military ski base into a resort”
N Korea has military ski bases.
That’s great news! There’s a whole bunch of rich USA democrats that need an extended vacation and are looking for a place to move to.
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