Travel and tourism to North Korea. An exciting and risky travel plan for some. The site, www.dprktoday.com , provides foreigners with detailed information on the secretive communist nation’s tourist attractions, hotels, and tour programs through related stories and video clips.
North Korea launched a new tourism website Monday intended to draw more foreign tourists. The site is only in the Korean language.
The North has a few other propaganda sites for outside online users like Uriminzokkiri ( www.uriminzokkiri.com ).The new website focuses more on attracting foreign tourists.
The North’s media said the website has been created to “satisfy growing interest and expectation” over the nation.
The site offers specific flight schedules from Beijing, Vladivostok and several other foreign cities to Pyongyang as well as a list of various package tour programs as well as information on luxury hotels and ways to contact relevant tour agencies abroad.
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- The site offers specific flight schedules from Beijing, Vladivostok and several other foreign cities to Pyongyang as well as a list of various package tour programs as well as information on luxury hotels and ways to contact relevant tour agencies abroad.
- The site is only in the Korean language.
- North Korea launched a new tourism website Monday intended to draw more foreign tourists.
