A major surge in Chinese tourist numbers visiting North Korea has resumed, travel industry specialists told NK News, following a period from mid-August to mid-September during which PRC nationals almost completely stopped visiting the country.

Hundreds of Chinese tourists are now arriving in Pyongyang each day, with “up to a thousand or more on some days,” said Koryo Tours General Manager Simon Cockerell on Wednesday.

That figure excludes those visiting the border city of Sinuiju in the northwest of the DPRK, as well as those entering via the border city of Namyang in the north and Rason in the northeast.

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