SEOUL — A tour operator said Monday it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, offering foreign tourists the first chance to visit since the pandemic.
SEOUL — A tour operator said Monday it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korea n border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, offering foreign tourists the first chance to visit since the pandemic.Tour operators said in January that the North would reopen Rason, a city on the border with China, to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers in response to Covid-19.Neither North Korea nor China have commented on the plans.
This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency via KNS on Januyary 29, 2025 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un inspecting a nuclear material production site and nuclear weapons laboratory, at an unknown location in North Korea. AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNSItineraries on offer also included visiting North Korean factories, schools and a bank at which tourists can open their very own North Korean bank account.
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