North Korea stopped tourists from visiting, only weeks after the first western tourists entered the country for the first time in five years.
North Korea seals itself at the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic in the early 2020, and began to scale back restrictions in the middle of 2023.
The Russian visitors opened it in 2024, but this was the last month allowing the western tourists in remote east, eastern city.
However many tour companies now say that traveling country travel has been canceled to further notice. Pyongyang didn’t give a sudden stop.
“The news just received from our Korean companions to close Reason for everyone. We’ll keep you posted,” specialist in North Korea Tours, Wednesday.
Tours of young pione and excellent trips are one of the other agencies that have announced suspension.
Those trips on April and may not refrain from booking flight “Until we have more information”, young pioneer trips say a post on Facebook.
On 20 February, the first western tourists began to arrive at the reason, a city marked by north as a special economic zone, to test new financial policies.
Tourist operators tell BBC movements The actions of guests are more restricted than pre-pandemic trips – they have fewer opportunities to go around the streets and talk to the streets.
Phone signals and Internet access is also not available in Stind Etement.
A tourist leader said he suspected that Reason was chosen because the place was somewhat in hand and easily controlled.
Last week, Koryo tours said it accepted international applications for the Pyongyong Marathon for the first time in five years. The activity is scheduled for 6 in April but now it is unclear if it can still be processed.
North Korea sees about 350,000 foreign tourists in 2019, which are 90% of the Chinese, according to media reports.
