North Korea will open to tourism from December this year.
Chinese tour operators, KTG Tours and Koryo Tours, who specialise in tours to North Korea, confirmed that the country would open the city of Samjiyon to tourists in December.
“So far, just Samjiyon has been officially confirmed, but we think that Pyongyang and other places will open too,” KTG Tours said on a social media post.
Koryo Tours shared this optimism, saying it hoped the rest of the country would be open to tourism by December as well.
The opening of the borders comes after four years, when the country was closed to tourists in January 2020 to limit the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to bbc.com, North Korea has only allowed Russian visitors to enter the country since the closure, as the two nations forge closer ties.
According to Koryo Tours, North Korea has been working for years on the tourism development of Samjiyon, which is the most significant and sacred place in the whole Korean Peninsula, and is said to be the birthplace of Kim Jong II, the father of the present ruler Kim Jong Un.
