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Tengrinews.kz - North Korea is preparing to welcome foreign tourists once again after a five-year hiatus, according to The Independent.
Tengrinews.kz - North Korea is preparing to welcome foreign tourists once again after a five-year hiatus, according to The Independent.
North Korea was the first country to close its borders to tourists at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020, and it remains the only country that has not yet reopened them. Now, the country plans to start accepting foreign tourists again. Koryo Tours, a leading travel company that organizes trips to North Korea, hopes to send the first Western tourists to the country by the end of 2024.
International passenger flights resumed in August 2023, but they are still not available for tourists.
Simon Cockerell from Koryo Tours mentioned in a podcast that North Korea's National Tourism Administration recently announced plans to open a specific area of the country to tourists in December 2024. This area is Samjiyon, a new tourist complex in the north of the country, located near the Chinese border and close to Mount Paektu, North Korea's highest peak.
"This is not a full reopening of the country as seen previously but a partial reopening of one, until now, relatively unknown area," Cockerell noted.
Samjiyon is known as the location of various guerrilla bases used during the resistance against Japanese occupation and is also considered the official birthplace of Kim Jong Il. It is expected that access to Samjiyon will be via a land crossing in northern China that has not been previously used by Western tourists.
