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Tours to N. Korean border town now possible via two companies

Despite development, American tourists prohibited from visiting

North Korea has allowed foreign tourists from a second Western travel agency to stay overnight in the border town of Sinuiju, the Washington D.C. based Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported last Tuesday.

Young Pioneer Tours (YPT), a China based company that specializes in tours to North Korea, told RFA last week that tourists would now be able to stay overnight in Sinuiju, to have a better chance of seeing what daily life is like on North Korea’s border with China.

The development makes YPT the the second company to offer tours to the seldom visited town: in December the Beijing-based