Holidaying in North Korea
 Over the next few weeks I am planning, and then journeying, to one of the last great unknown states on the planet - North Korea. I will be looking through the prism of travel rather than politics as the experience culminates in the "Day of the Sun". President Kim Il Sung's 101th birthday celebrations. |
My latest 5 diary entries
| 5th Apr 2013 | ||||
| And that..as they say..is that... | ||||
| Not twenty minutes after previous blog post - I receive this from my tour company:- A few hours ago the Swedish Foreign Ministry issued an official recommendation concerning trips to the DPRK. It is NOT recomm... | ||||
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| 5th Apr 2013 | ||||
| Should I be going? Is it still safe in North Korea? | ||||
| The war of words between North Korea and, well, no one else, is annoyingly escalating in front of my eyes just days before I set off for my trip there. Where there had been a slow pressure cooker increase in the ... | ||||
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| 2nd Apr 2013 | ||||
| 29 things I can and can't do in North Korea | ||||
| Barring full scale war breaking out, I should be flying out in eight days’ time. Through my pre-trip departure information and guidebooks, I have now been able to get to grips with a 29 top tips dos and don’ts... | ||||
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| 29th Mar 2013 | ||||
| Visa miracles do happen on Good Friday | ||||
| While Jesus allegedly walked with his cross to his death on Good Friday, I ended up for a second time in three days walking down the rambunctiously busy North Circular past mock Tudor post WW2 houses and arriving a... | ||||
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| 26th Mar 2013 | ||||
| Trying to obtain a North Korean visa | ||||
| Today I got the pleasure, in the cold winds of west London, to visit the house of Mr Chol. Mr Chol is the Ambassador for North Korea in the UK. The house of Mr Chol also twins itself as the Embassy. And the house ... | ||||
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