Unsurprisingly after our somewhat momentous night in Yanji and our first day in Rason, we started day 2 having all had quite the sleep the night before, and thus fairly bright eyed and bushy tailed. Stop one of the day took us to the Rajin revolutionary museum. Most major towns have a revolutionary museum, which […]

You could in some kind of weird way separate the DPRK into two parts, the mainland, and the Rason SeZ, in some very small ways vaguely analogous to China and Hong Kong, with one part being Socialist, and the other being (in some ways at least), capitalist, but this would be a very big simplification […]

It has apparently just been confirmed by Associated Press that Dennis Rodman met Leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang this evening, 28th February 2013, amazingly with Vice magazine. Alas this is not something we anticipate being added to our itineraries for the foreseeable future.

YPT have confirmed that tourists and visitors to the DPRK will now be able to use their own cellphones while in country. More over we have prices! By purchasing a Koryolink simcard (available at the airport for now and hopefully soon at foreigner hotels) You’ll be able to make international calls from North Korea. Local […]

We’ve just confirmed with Rason that tourist’s phones will also be allowed into the Rason Special Economic zone, however officially phones with GPS and satellite phones are still banned. Rason was the original testing ground when cellphones were re introduced and is supposed to be something of a playground for new policy so it’s not […]

Richie has just returned from our first group tour of the year and brings some pretty big news! At the moment  the DPRK is saying you can bring phones into the country. Satellite phones are still banned, but for now at least the ban on bringing mobile phones into North Korea appears to be lifted. […]

From January next year,  trains are scheduled to run from Dandong to Pyongyang every day of the week, and vice versa too. This is great news for independent tours (Though unfortunately not so much for American citizens who will still need to fly in and out), making it much easier to travel to North Korea, […]

When most people think of tourism in North Korea, they probably don’t think of activities like Skiing. Yet plans are underway to introduce not just one but as many as three new skiing locations, all of which will allow foreigners to hit the Korean slopes. (The only one at the moment is for locals only). […]

BREAKING: North Korea Has Launched its Rocket, And A Satellite is ‘in Orbit’ North Korea has launched its long-range rocket at 1000KST and is broadcasting via state media that it has successfully put a satellite into orbit. Japan and South Korea are holding emergency meetings. North Korea has released a second statement, saying in part […]

I spent some time looking at ferry options between the Dandong in China and Icheon in South Korea, and the North Korean Cruise from Rason to Mt. Kumgang, which got me thinking in a nautical way. Now most people’s idea of travel is taking a plane to a destination, look around then flying to their […]