SEOUL – Western visitors will soon be allowed to enter the Sino-North Korean border town of Sinuiju on short one day trips, a Beijing-based tour company said.

The route was previously only open to Chinese tourists, who often have more access to areas of North Korea not yet open to Western visitors.

“Chinese tourists have always been able to open up different areas first in the past- they bring large numbers, don’t ask questions and don’t publicize their trips, so are seen as low risk,” Troy Collings of Young Pioneer Tours told NK News.

“After the recent Chinese travel ban on