North Korea Incoming Travel -
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Kumgangsan
Kumgangsan or The Diamond Mountains are named for their hard
sparkling cliffs, and are a national treasure for the Korean
people, with its life-giving beauty. Long considered a
source of particular power and spiritual renewal, the
reopening of the mountain to visitors from South Korea bears
particular significance as a step toward reuniting the land
of the divided Korean peninsula. The area is famed for its
scenic beauty, and 1998 became the first part of North Korea
that can be visited on organized tours from the South.
Kŭmgangsan was the first place in North Korea opened up to
allow visits by South Korean tour groups, beginning in 1998.
Myohyangsan
Myohyangsan means 'mountain of mysterious fragrance'. It is
a pristine area of hills, mountain trails and waterfalls,
which is completely untouched by mass tourism. The scenery
is quite wonderful, and in summer awash with flowers. The
focus of all trips are, however, the two vast shrines that
make up the IFE. The first one contains all the gifts
presented to the eternal president Kim Il Sung. Among the
highlights of the 100,000 item collection is a beautiful
armoured train carriage presented to him by Mao Zedong and a
limousine sent to Kim by that great man of the people, Josef
Stalin. The second shrine houses the gift warehouse of Kim
Jong Il, which is full of booty donated by industrialists,
like countless TV's, rather than tributes from fellow
despots. Sangwon Valley is the most common place for a hike
and is directly northeast of the IFE.
Paekdusan
Paekdusan is a
mountain on the Chinese-North Korean border. It has an
extinct volcano with a vast crater lake at its centre, it is
the country's highest mountain at 2744m (9000ft), and also
of huge mythical importance to Koreans. The huge crater lake
called Chonji ("Lake of Heaven") lies at the summit,
surrounded by bare rocky crags. It is one of the deepest
alpine lakes in the world, and although it's fed by two hot
springs, it is also one of the coldest. Paekdusan is sacred
to all Koreans, because according to Korean mythology it is
where the 'Son of the Lord of Heaven' descended to earth and
the first Korean kingdom began.
Panmunjeom
A
unique living relic of the Cold War era, Panmunjeom is a
small village that happened to lie at the final battle front
of the Korean War. The truce that ended hostilities was
signed here in 1953, but as peace was never agreed to, the
two sides are still officially at war over fifty years later
and a million men stand guard in the singularly
inappropriately named Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). While there
are no troops in the zone itself, both sides of the
4-kilometer strip of land separating the Koreas are the most
heavily armed in the world: Pillboxes, barbed wire and tank
stoppers line the entire border and stretch back halfway to
Seoul in the South and Pyongyang in the North. Ironically
the sad sight of a pointlessly divided nation remains a
highlight of any trip to North Korea. Even if you're just in
North Korea for a couple of days, you'll be taken here as
the DPRK is very keen to show off what it considers the net
result of American imperialism.
Pyongyang
The
North Korean capital Pyongyang is the regime's showcase to the
world. Only people favored by the regime are allowed to live
there. The propaganda machinery portrays it as paradise on
earth, a spotless city where the population enjoys the fruits of
the Korean revolution. The truth is somewhat different. The
grand revolutionary monuments of the capital stand as an ironic
reminder of the leadership's true priorities.
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