March 28, 2024
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Photoblog: Spending time in the rarely visited northeast of North Korea

Photographer recounts visit to seldom visited northeastern region of DPRK

In late September 2014, I traveled to the north eastern most province of the DPRK, North Hamgyong. Unlike most trips to this region, which start in Pyongyang and then travel to North Korea's third city, Chongjin, by train or plane, I traveled by foot across the Tumen river crossing to Namyang, which has only been used by a handful of Western tourists since opening to them in November 2012.

[caption id="attachment_144662" align="aligncenter" width="657"]The bridge connecting Tumen in China, and Namyang in the DPRK The bridge connecting Tumen in China, and Namyang in the DPRK[/caption]

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