Image via DPRKToday.com
Finally, there is a one-stop, Internet shop for all things pertaining to North Korean tourism-just in case anyone ever decides to go.
Yonhap News Agency (h/t NBC News) reports a website, which launched on Monday, "provides foreigners with detailed information on the secretive communist nation's tourist attractions, hotels and tour programs through related stories and video clips."
If you are up to speed on your Korean, head on over to DPRKToday.com and begin plugging away at your North Korean bucket list of hot spots and must-see destinations.
The news agency continues with what you might find at the budding website: "It also 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."
As NBC News reminds, there is still a travel ban to the country because of an ongoing Ebola scare. ABC News reported back in October that North Korea was, "closing its borders to all foreign tourists due to fears of the Ebola virus."
So consider this fairly inauspicious timing to roll out a figurative open-arm sign to foreigners to come and visit.
This is like throwing a party and forcing your friends to enjoy themselves on the curb. Then again, the country may not have a strong handle on how these things are done.
Al Jazeera had this to say about the influx of tourists into the country back in July: "North Korea receives around 6,000 tourists a year."
The report continues, "In comparison, the continent of Antarctica over the same period receives over six times that."
We wouldn't be surprised if that report continued that trips to the moon were more popular than that to North Korea. Although taking a look at the website we are convinced that trend is totally going to change in 2015.
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