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North Korea Travel Guide

The Beautiful Pohyon Temple - Mt Myohyang, North Korea (DPRK)

North Korea Travel Guide To travel to North Korea, you must book a tour with one of the authorised tour operators – I chose Young Pioneer Tours.  It is impossible to undertake independent travel within the country under a tourist visa, but you can take the option (as I did) of an independent tour, that […]

Bowing Before the Feet of The Great Leader in North Korea

Bowing Before The Feet Of The Great Leader - Mt Mansu, Pyongyang, North Korea

Bowing Before the Feet of The Great Leader in North Korea Examples of reverence for the Great Leader were everywhere. His pictures adorned the inside of every hotel and public building we entered in addition to his ubiquitous visage appearing on billboards and statues across the land. Whenever you visited any site – whether that […]

North Korea Things To Do

Juche Tower Reflection on the Taedong River - Pyongyang, North Korea (DPRK)

North Korea Things to Do You will not have a lot of choice to what you see in North Korea (officially called the DPRK – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) since all tours only visit the authorised places. If you take an independent tour, you will have more flexibility, but it doesn’t open too […]