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ohahakehte · Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Location: The State of Denial

according to these articles flights have existed b/w seoul and pyongyang for a little while:

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200309/kt2003090717533611960.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,2763,1045959,00.html

http://seeingeye.blogs.com/news/2003/09/exclusivelysuit.html

met any south koreans who've done it? the ones ive talked to about it are in total disbelief that the round trip flight exists and once i tell them that it does, they dont much wanna travel to the north.

FUBAR · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: The Y.C.

peppergirl · Joined: 07 Dec 2003

I heard these tours to North-Korea are quite expensive, for the same price or cheaper you could go on a holiday to Thailand... guess where most young Koreans want to go...

ohahakehte · Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Location: The State of Denial

mithridates · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:33 am Post subject:

I'm a white Canadian guy too, and North Korea has been present in my dreams for the past two years or so; it won't leave me alone. I plan to go this year but I need to check about permission because apparently they always ask whether one is a reporter or not. I write for a few newspapers here and get in other media sometimes and so I suspect I would need special permission to go...I think I'll probably have to make a trip to the embassy in China first to talk with them. I would love to stay there for a number of weeks and then write about it when I come back. That's my second most important goal this year.

ohahakehte · Joined: 24 Aug 2003 Location: The State of Denial

NK also won't leave me alone! im so there before i leave asia!

according to what the people in the travel company have told me, getting into NK is not as complicated as you may think, nor is it even as complicated as north koreans themselves make you think! i was told that to go on trips with this company, you need to send along with your visa documents a signed letter from an employer (*not* a south korean employer!) confirming that you've worked for this company for x amount of time. NK officials will call the person and confirm that its true. thing is, thats the extent of their checking up on you, so for all NK knows, this supposed company might never have existed but they dont care! sometimes NK doesn't even call the "employer"! in my case, the "employer" will definitely not exist except in my mind and on a phoney signed letter because ive been working in SK since october and will be here until next october and its unacceptable to NK that a tourist to their country has been living and working here.