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First look: North Korea’s Masikryong Ski Resort
A visit to North Korea’s just-opened Masikryong Ski Resort promises to be a “fascinating, bizarre, and very worthwhile experience,” suggests Beijing-based Koryo Tours. But, while taking to a North...
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Travel company to offer full tour of secretive Pyongyang metro
Tourists will be given an unprecedented full tour of Pyongyang’s metro system in April 2014, a German travel company announced on Thursday. Announcing the new tour on their website, Pyongyang-Travel is...
View ArticleNorth Korea: The next Thailand of Asia?
Nearly all communist states tended to have a “main construction project,” an impressive undertaking where, if the newspapers were to be believed, the workers’ enthusiasm for labor produced amazing...
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How to buy a North Korean suit in Pyongyang
Traveling through the DPRK, or North Korea, you’ll immediately notice the multitudes of people wearing casual zip-up suits that may look like military uniforms from afar, but indeed they are for...
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What it’s like to spend a night in a North Korean house
A state-owned “homestay” program on North Korea’s Chilbo Mountain invites foreigners to eat, sleep and experience the local lifestyle. Chilbo Mountain is located in the nation’s northernmost North...
View Article‘I Was Told There Would be Robots’
On Halloween 2011, I did as all the travel blogs suggested and arrived early at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, an unassuming one-story building, not far from the Chao Phraya River. A few hours and...
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An inside look at North Korea’s luxury hotel industry
Despite being well known for food shortages, poverty and isolation, there are a growing number of luxury class hotels in North Korea – and not only in ‘affluent’ Pyongyang. Built with facilities that...
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North Korean cruise company wants to sail to South Korea
YANJI – South Korean tourists could soon be welcome to set sail on a cruise from North Korea and travel to destinations in the South, the Singaporean manager of a Soviet -era cruise ship moored in...
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DPRK expands tourist access to Wonsan Kalma Peninsula
The DPRK is opening luxury tourism facilities on the Kalma Peninsula–land previously dominated by the Korean Peoples’ Army (KPA). The southern end of peninsula is dominated by the KPA Air Force: The...
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Pyongyang’s War Museum Gets a Facelift
North Korea’s “Victorious Fatherland War Museum”, famous for housing hundreds of relics from the 1950-53 Korean War that almost destroyed the entire peninsula, is part of the standard package of...
View ArticleIncrease in foreign tourists attending this year’s mass games
LOS ANGELES – North Korea’s Arirang mass games performance –– a yearly spectacle where thousands of North Korean gymnasts perform in Pyongyang –– is “ready to open,” the KCNA reported on Thursday and,...
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How to send your child to summer camp in North Korea
While some kids are being sent away to summer camps in New England right now, others are on their way to the Songdowon International Children’s Camp in Wonsan, North Korea. Songdowon is one of the last...
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Dennis Rodman’s homage to Kim Il Sung revealed
NEW YORK CITY – Dennis Rodman’s February visit to North Korea is the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks to an exclusive dispatch from Young Pioneer Tours partner and tour-guide Joseph Ferris III, NK...
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Exclusive: More pics from the first Western tourist in Sinuiju
NEW YORK CITY – Yesterday, Koryo Tours general manager Simon Cockerell was the first-ever western tourist to visit the North Korean border town of Sinuiju. A colorful welcome to town by the local tour...
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Ojok Island: How To Gatecrash North Korea Without A Visa
by Nigel Callinan The Yalu River marks the border between northwest North Korea and the Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin, meandering across the landscape and shifting in width. In some places,...
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Part 2: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
This is part two of a mini-series. Click here for part 1: All Aboard the Juche Express In a second hand bookshop sometime in the 1990s, I happened upon an old copy of the Golden Guide to South East...
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UPDATE: Tourist Visits to North Korea Via Dandong Suspended
Update: April 10, 2013 05:09 EST - Both Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours continue to operate as normal and have advised that this development is only affecting tours booked via the Chineese Dandong...
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Kempinski Freezes ‘Hotel Of Doom’ Plans In North Korea
LONDON – Luxury hotel operators Kempinski have told NK NEWS that plans to open rooms at the 105 floor Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang have been put on hold because of “market conditions” in North Korea....
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Luxury Hotel Building Boom In Pyongyang Continues
By Yeseul Loaiza Reports are circulating that a new luxury class hotel / casino is under construction in Pyongyang, seemingly as part of a China backed plan to boost North Korean de-luxe hotel...
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Is Tourism in North Korea Really Booming?
Yesterday North Korea’s state news agency proclaimed that foreign tourism is currently booming in North Korea, despite the fact that just one week prior the country conducted its third nuclear test....
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