North Korea’s tourism agency has launched a website offering holiday options ranging from surfing to rice planting, despite strong U. S. warnings to avoid t
SEOUL – North Korea’s tourism agency has launched a website offering holiday options ranging from surfing to rice planting, despite strong U. S. warnings to avoid travel to a nation where several trips have ended in jail.
Sixteen Americans have been detained in the past decade in North Korea, including 22-year-old student Otto Warmbier, who was given a long prison term for stealing a hotel propaganda banner. He was sent home in a coma in June but died several days later.
The DPR Korea Tour website, run by the North’s National Tourism Administration, depicts the country — which is subject to stiff sanctions over its weapons programs — as just another tourist destination.
It introduces package trips to various parts of the country, including Pyongyang, and offers various “theme tours” for travelers seeking something more unusual.
