Everyone is invited to the commemoration of the late leader Kim Jong Il’s birthday.
Foreign visitors can now travel to North Korea for the first time in over five years, though only to the city of Rason, which is among the least visited locations in the closed communist regime.
Beijing-based tour company Koryo Tours said this week that it had restored reservations for visits to the city following North Korea’s 2020 border closure during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The journey, which costs roughly $720, includes four nights in Rason, a city in the northeast of the country close to the Russian and Chinese borders. Additionally, guests will spend two nights in Yanji, China.
The first visit is scheduled to take place from February 12 to February 18, when North Korea’s greatest holiday—the birthday of its late leader, Kim Jong Il—will be celebrated in full.
The Day of the Shining Star, a national holiday, is usually observed on February 16 with parades and other large-scale public events. Additionally, sculptures of Kim Jong Il, the father of their current leader Kim Jong Un, are revered by North Koreans.