Updated: Mar 26, 2020: Much like former Eastern Bloc countries, North Koreans can travel abroad with permission from the government.

Located in the new Ryomyong Science Street, the newly opened New Hope restaurant (Sae Hui Mang) is a little unique amongst the North Korean restaurants that accept foreigners. While hot pot is nothing new, with the Chongryu Hot Pot being an option since tourism to North Korea began, New Hope specialises in seafood and has […]

Introduction Meari shooting range is a leisure and entertainment center located in the area of Pyongyang’s sporting district. The name meari means echo in the Korean language. Most famous for being an area for local Koreans and tourists alike to take target practice with low calibre weaponry, the Meari Shooting Range is a classic stop […]

The Chongnyon Youth Hotel was first opened in 1989 and is classed as a budget hotel with a North Korean three-star rating. The name Chongnyon translates to Youth which was named for the first purpose of the hotel providing accommodation for the student visitors who attended the largest international event Pyongyang has ever held, the […]

As the most prominent city bordering North Korea’s northern neighbour of China, Sinuiju is a city many tourists pass through whilst travelling between Dandong and Pyongyang by train, but not a city where people stop to explore. Below are our reasons why you visit this unique border town city of the DPRK. 1. Explore a rarely […]

In our inaugural post to guides of the provincial capitals of North Korea, we bring you Chongjin: the capital city of North Hamgyong province. Chongjin is North Korea’s third largest city, with a population of around 620,000, and is the country’s industrial heartland. The city features massive steel complexes, a port, a locomotive plant and […]

With Marshal Kim Jong Un leaving his country for the first time after the US-DPRK summit in Vietnam, you might be interested in knowing how such a trip is doable. While we’ve previously covered how to get from Vladivostok to Pyongyang by plane and covered how to get from China to North Korea, here is […]

How do you say Korea in Korean? What do Koreans call Korea and all that jazz? Would a rose by any other name smell so sweet? I think Shakespeare said something like that, and from what I can gather he was saying ‘names are important’. But the good old Bard was talking about flowers; alas, […]

As we predicted , Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin today met in Vladivostok. Kim and Putin are meeting for the first time and much has been put on the table in terms of the level of collaboration that could happen between the two countries. Much is still to be discussed, but some subjects have […]

What Korean provinces are there, or more specifically what North Korean provinces are there. We take a lot at the geographical divisions of North Korea. People, namely people who do not happen to live in North Korea, often see the country as a large monolithic block. And while the regional variation in the DPRK may […]