Tourists granted rare access to nearly all stations on Pyongyang metro network

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Tourists granted rare access to nearly all stations on Pyongyang metro network

Two Western tour companies allowed access to areas of Pyongyang metro for first time

Hamish Macdonald May 2, 2014

Tourists granted rare access to nearly all stations on Pyongyang metro network

Koryo Tours

Two tour companies, Pyongyang-Travel and Koryo Tours, have conducted the most extensive tours of the Pyongyang Metro system to date after visiting stations in April that were previously off limits to foreign visitors.

Tourists were previously only allowed to visit a small number of stations on one of Pyongyang's two Metro lines, but members of a Koryo Tours group were able to visit all but one of the stations on the Chollima line on April 18. Pyongyang-Travel, another company specializing in niche interest tours of the DPRK, impressively conducted an even more extensive tour, visiting all but three stations on both the Chŏllima and Hyŏksin lines between April 3 and April 10.

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Hamish Macdonald

Hamish Macdonald is an Associate Fellow at RUSI who formerly worked on Project SANDSTONE and formerly a journalist and researcher who has focused uniquely on North Korea related topics and affairs. He was previously the COO of the Korea Risk Group, which produces the NK News and NK Pro. Specialising in this area, his investigations covered topics including North Korean sanctions evasion activities, domestic economic development and human rights.

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