A bar in Pyongyang once reserved for local citizens is now allowing foreign tourists to visit, an industry source told NK News on Tuesday.

According to North Korea travel service Young Pioneer Tours, tourists and foreign visitors to Pyongyang – in the past barred from entering the Kyonghung Bar – are now being permitted to enter and purchase beer in the evenings.

The bar “opened up about three weeks ago,” YPT guide Rowan Beard told NK News, whose organization led one of the first visits by foreigners to the bar. 

The authorities choosing to open is significant,