Western tourists will soon gain access to a new destination along the North Korea-China border and a new route through one of the country’s most secretive provinces, according to the tour company Young Pioneer Tours (YPT).

Starting from the Ji’an-Manpho border, non-Chinese tour groups will for the first time be allowed to regularly cross for group day trips in Manpho and to take a train through Jagang province to Pyongyang.

YPT tour manager Rowan Beard told NK Newsthat the new option will become available “very soon,” though he said logistical preparations are still underway to allow both Chinese and