North Korea is keen to attract tourists

North Korea has always been a secluded state and its leader Kin Jong-Un is keen to attract tourists. He wants to increase it from the present 100,000 annually to two million by 2020. It is an ambitious project but already several tourism zones have been created over the past few years towards achieving this objective.
There are traditional tours of state sites and monuments, and tourists can now choose to go for snowboarding, and would soon get an opportunity to put up in an underwater hotel.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 13 February 2017.

In view of secrecy surrounding the activities of North Korea, the tourist would have to accept that his movements will be restricted and he must follow the group and its itinerary and also follow the guide - each group is assigned two guides. Moreover, visitors must not show disrespect to the country's supreme leaders and take photographs of soldiers or military areas.
Tourists can see ox-drawn carts, people hitchhiking, cars that have been outfitted to run on coal emitting thick black smoke. Moreover, there are visits to architectural sites, skiing and hiking trips, and supermarkets and pubs in Pyongyang where visitors can meet and rub shoulders with locals.


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