On Wednesday, two travel companies servicing North Korea announced that the isolated nation will resume international tourism in December.
China’s Koryo Tours and KTG Tours revealed on their websites that excursions to Samjiyon will start at the end of the year after Pyongyang closed the border in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The new policy arrives after previous restrictions allowed small groups of Russians to enter North Korea on flights from Vladivostok, seemingly as a gesture of appreciation for the regime’s growing relationship with Moscow.
Visiting the Stalinist dictatorship is tightly controlled, with vacationers required to partake in government-approved excursions under the supervision of official guides.
