The following article is the fourteenth in a multipart series by Gareth Johnson of Young Pioneer Tours about being a North Korea tour guide. Views expressed in columns are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

A few years ago, a Danish adventurer and diving fanatic named Frode Uhre approached us with an unusual question. Would it be possible to scuba dive in North Korea?

Uhre had already visited every country in the world, and now he wanted to go diving in every country too. So we sent out feelers to our partners in the