Celtic/Gaelic domination of the whiskey market scotched as North Korea unveil their first distillation! January 5th 2024 North Korean whiskey is here! Young Pioneer Tours was today given access to the first ever batch of North Korean whiskey — the locally-distilled Samilpo whiskey! Yes it was us that broke this story. Some of you may […]

After a five-year hiatus, last year saw the triumphant return of the DPRK’s Mass Games — the world’s largest coordinated mass gymnastics event and a spectacle like no other on earth. The revival of the event proved hugely popular, with tours to North Korea fully booked for the duration of the new incarnation of the […]

North Korea Mass Games 2019 — “People’s Country” — confirmed! Mass Games 2019 have been confirmed! We have just got some exciting news from our partners in Pyongyang that the Mass Games will be starting in late June this year and running all the way through October, giving everyone that comes to Pyongyang during the […]

Young Pioneer Tours is always working with our Korean partners to open up new parts of the DPRK to tourism, and the city of Manpo in Chagang Province is now open to tourists as of April 2019. What the Manpo? Manpo is a large city of over 100,000 people, standing on the banks of the […]

Less than a year after it signed a peace declaration with Ethiopia and opened up its land borders, Eritrea closed its last open land border yesterday. Positive gestures were made in 2018 towards the normalization of the relationship between the two countries, which have been in a political standoff for the last 20 years following […]

In a move widely seen as a move towards facilitating foreign tourism to the country, Pakistan has recently begun a visa-on-arrival policy to 5 preferred countries. Initially, visas on arrival are available to nationals of the United Kingdom, Turkey, China, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. Furthermore, Islamabad intends to expand the visa-on-arrival policy to […]

The president of Sudan, Omar el-Bashir, has been ousted from his office by the Sudanese military. This ends the 30-year rule of El-Bashir, who was one of the longest running leaders of North Africa and the Arab World. Omar el-Bashir became the leader of Sudan after leading a coup himself in 1989 against the then-democratically-elected […]

In a move to simplify immigration procedures and promote tourism, the government of Somaliland has announced that it will now issue visas on arrival for a number of countries. Valid from today, citizens of the EU, Canada, USA, Brazil, China, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) such […]

Following a surge in bookings following the March DPRK-USA summit in Hanoi, a Vietnamese travel agency has entered into a deal with the Korea International Travel Company (KITC) to charter flights direct from Vietnam to Pyongyang. The official memorandum of understanding was signed between the two organisations at the Vietnam International Tourism Mart, taking place […]

Pyongyang, April 1st 2019  In a development sure to add fuel to the fire of Star Wars debates worldwide, the DPRK today proclaimed, after mammoth 20+ hour sessions of Star Wars marathons by top government officials, that ‘The Last Jedi is by far the best of all the Star Wars movies’. Top general Ha Wing […]