When Chinese tourists visit the DPRK, their experiences there differ in key ways from those of the increasingly numerous Westerners who travel to the country.

In this second article on Chinese tourism to the DPRK –  the first one is here – our China borderlands reporter focuses on the Chinese side to describe what kinds of tourist from the Middle Kingdom actually visit the DPRK.

Among Chinese visitors to North Korea, many have life experiences whose past challenges are reminiscent of the more recent struggles of ordinary North Koreans, and as a result, the country presents much that is familiar to them.