After slaughtering hundreds of thousands of pigs to curb an outbreak of African Swine Fever last year, a South Korean border city is hoping to reopen tours in the Demilitarized Zone. But for now, COVID-19 stands in the way.

The northwestern City of Paju announced on Monday that it’s done preparing the area for a revamp in its “peace tours,” which allows visitors to peer over borderlands from an observatory or visit tunnels allegedly dug by North Korean forces. 

The tours were suspended in Oct. 2019 to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever (ASF), which posed a danger to