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North Korea suddenly stopped international trips to the northeastern border city nearby Chinaless than three weeks after it opens For tourists From pandemic.
Multiple Western Travel Agencies organized by Rason’s tour, a city near the North Korea border, has published updates in the last month of detailed tourists on foreign tourists after their sovereign korean partners.
However, on Wednesday, they announced on their social media that tours in the corporate are currently suspended.
“Oh no! I just received the news from our Korean partners that Rason is closed for everyone. We will keep you informed,” “Travel Agency with the Spain KTG passes to their Facebook.
Rayco Vega, KTG excursion coordinator confirmed a suspension at the AFP news agency and added: “We do not know the reason or how long it will last.”
BeijingThe Agency that the young pioneer has published a similar announcement: “Our partners are in the DPRK that tours are currently paused. We recommend that they are planning to tour in April and can refrain from flight reservations to more information.”
The Koryo Tours Travel Agency, which was organized by the five-day tour of Rason only last month, announced: “There are news that the border of Rason can temporarily close and understand the situation with our partners as soon as possible.”
Tourists who visited Rason through Koryo Tours were the first international travelers who entered the Rultural Earth in five years, except Russian tourists.
“From January 2020. year, the country is closed for all international tourists, and we are glad to finally find an opening in the Rason area, in the far north of North Korea,” CEO COCKERELL CEO.
Last week, the German passenger impact of Luca Pferdmenges, 23, who were on tour, interviewed Business Insider About his trip to Rason. The influence described his trip in detail, adding, “But what I was most surprised that they did not hide the visible poverty of the country.”
“People in rural areas were obviously very bad, and we were not allowed to photograph them. Many of them used oxen and carriages. Our guides are also very strictly said that we do not photograph farmers in the countryside, because they are very lowered and handles,” he said.
“Surprisingly, they did not close the curtains so that we can see it. Guides also did not deny that there is poverty; they just don’t like people photographing and representing it as the only truth.”
North Korea closed its limits early 2020. year, when COVID-19 Pandemic struck.
Rason, founded in 1991. As a special economic zone for attracting foreign investment, there was never such a popular destination as the capital of Pyongyang, which remains closed for all but Russian tourists.
International flights in North Korea and from North Korea continued in 2023. years, with a small group of Russian tourists flying on a private tour in February. The group consisted of people from the tourism industry and “passengers from literally all parts of Russia from Kalinigrad to Vladivostok”, at that time, the Russian Embassy in Pyongjan said.
Before the pandemic, Chinese visitors accounted for about 90 percent of all foreign arrivals, with 350,000 entries in 2019. year A tightness of the road.
South Koreans remain prohibited from entering, and the United States has forbade their citizens to travel to North Korea since 2017. after custody and subsequent death of the American student Otto Warmbier.