Seoul, Feb 3, 2025 (AFP) - North Korea 'Kim Jong Il' birthday tours to open: tour agency

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2025-02-03
A tour operator said Monday it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il's birthday, offering foreign tourists the first chance to visit since the pandemic. 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. Neither North Korea nor China have commente......
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