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Kang Tae-jun
Tae-jun Kang is the NK News East Asia Correspondent and is based in Hong Kong. Prior to writing, he worked as a riot police officer in South Korea for two years.
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Tours to N. Korean border town now possible via two companiesDespite 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. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |