SEOUL: Tourists should expect far stricter supervision if visits to the border between North and South Korea resume, analysts said, after US soldier Travis King used an organised tour to get close enough to dash
For tour agencies, the JSA tour is one of the packages that sell with the highest margin in South Korea with"absolutely no cost involved to the tour companies, except for the bus and the driver", said Jacco Zwetsloot, a former JSA tour guide and now host of the NK News Podcast about North Korea.
For the UNC, the tours are about educating people and raising awareness of the"frozen conflict" after the Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, Zwetsloot said. "I expect that within a year, we'll see a redesigned orientation visit become possible once again, but it probably won't be as free and easy as they have been for the last 40 or so years," he said, noting that security should be the main consideration.
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