SEOUL, Feb 3 — A tour operator said today it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il’s birthday, offering foreign...
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Tour operators said in January that the North would reopen Rason, a city on the border with China, to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers in response to Covid-19.Koryo Tours said the February tour in Rason would be “the first trip back to North Korea since the borders closed in January 2020”.
The birthday of former ruler Kim Jong Il—father of current leader Kim Jong Un—is marked as Day of the Shining Star on February 16, and typically features large-scale public celebrations, including military parades. The tours were slated to start in China, with guests to be driven to the border with the nuclear-armed North.Rason became North Korea’s first special economic zone in 1991 and has been a testing ground for new economic policies.
Pyongyang has since reopened the border to some trade and official delegations, and North Korea last year permitted Russian tourists to enter the country for the first time since the pandemic. Pyongyang’s actions are “destabilising not only the Northeast Asian region but also Europe,” Asan Institute for Policy Studies research fellow Lee Dong-gyu told AFP.
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