More North Korea Tourism

Koryo Tours is your contact for travel in North Korea. Under certain conditions, Americans can visit the DPRK, and the biggest (only) tourist event of the year, the Mass Games, runs now through early October.

Foreign Policy has a new interview with an American business professor, Patrick Chovanec, a recent tourist in North Korea:

"At dawn, the whole town wakes to recorded patriotic songs and messages blared from loudspeakers. During the day, people walk around pushing their belongings -- including their children -- in makeshift wheelbarrows. At night, police jeeps cruise the dark like sharks, shouting harsh commands over their megaphones at passersby."

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