Travel: North Korea has bizarre rules for tourists
Date
3/16/2016 8:28:15 AM
(MENAFN- Asia Times) The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang.
While the mysterious country has come to embrace tourists in recent years including those from the West it has not wavered from its notoriously iron-fisted paranoid and propagandist ways in the process.
Each of the estimated 100000 international tourists who fly inside dictator Kim Jong-un's borders each year are bound to strict and often strange laws and regulations usually spelled out to them by way of a mandatory pre-arrival briefing in China.
And one of the first rules for tourists in North Korea is to not call the country North Korea calling it the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK will keep you on the right side of trouble.
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