The city of Pyongysong, located approximately 35km northwest of North Koreas’s capital city, has opened to foreign tourists.

Koryo Tours, a Beijing based North Korea tour operator, announced Tuesday that the city had opened to tourism with attractions including a town square, Kim Jong Suk Higher middle school, Paeksong Revolutionary Site, and soon a plastic leather factory, beer factory, and schoolchildren’s palace.

“It seems to be up and coming and genuinely I got a good vibe off the place,” Robin Tudge, a tour guide at Koryo Tours, told NK News.

“It was surprisingly relaxed, so it seemed, there was a