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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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What Kempinski’s Money Printing Machine Means For North Korea’s Capitalist...
‘It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air.’ Staring up at the Ryugyong, for decades a shell but today better...
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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,...
View ArticleGallery: Kickflipping in North Korea
Skateboarders Vadim Gurov and Gregory Malaev went to Pyongyang to find out how the land of Juchean self-restrained would respond to a couple of hip young dudes from Russia kickflipping all over their...
View ArticleAfters of Evil: North Korea’s Overseas Restaurant Odyssey
The era of the red star seems to giving way to that of the Michelin star as, all the way from the temples of Cambodia to the suburbs of Amsterdam, Kim Jong Un’s regime seeks to promote North Korean...
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Afters of Evil: Kimchi in Cambodia, Lament in London
How does eating North Korean food overseas compare with eating it in North Korea? I had been in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh some weeks before I heard of the Pyongyang Restaurant, a somewhat...
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A Meal Fit For A Kim – NK’s Overseas Disco-Diners
Clumsily levering one sticky mouthful after another into my mouth, chopsticks ineptly aligned between my blanched fingers, two questions come to me. Was it ethically sound to dine at the Pyongyang...
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DMZ Then and Now: The Deadliest Border On Earth
by Christopher Graper Visiting the DMZ is arguably the most popular tourist experience on the Korean peninsula. At 250km long, 4km wide, it is the single most heavily fortified border on Earth....
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North Korea’s Mountain Man Goes Hiking in the Axis of Evil
Over the past year a New Zealander by the name of Roger Shepherd has had almost unprecedented access to North Korea. He has spent nearly three months in the country over four visits, and was allowed,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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