{"id":19303,"date":"2017-07-21T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T00:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=19303"},"modified":"2017-07-22T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T00:09:51","slug":"north-korea-invites-travelers-to-go-on-a-themed-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/07\/21\/north-korea-invites-travelers-to-go-on-a-themed-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Invites Travelers to Go on a Themed Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">North Korea&#8217;s tourism agency is now offering themed tours and recently launched a website that details different activities and tourist spots in Pyongyang and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19305\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/Mansudae_Art_Studio._Pyongyang_North_Korea..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/Mansudae_Art_Studio._Pyongyang_North_Korea..jpg 1024w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/Mansudae_Art_Studio._Pyongyang_North_Korea.-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/Mansudae_Art_Studio._Pyongyang_North_Korea.-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/Mansudae_Art_Studio._Pyongyang_North_Korea.-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang, North Korea. \/IMAGE Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Although the country has been subject to numerous sanctions concerning nuclear weapons and human rights among others, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tourismdprk.gov.kp\/\">DPR Korea Tour<\/a> website depicts North Korea as a tourist destination developed &#8220;afresh under the wise leadership of supreme leader Kim Jong Un.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Run by the North&#8217;s National Tourism Administration, the site provides themed tours, itineraries, and even travel tips. Travelers are invited to try surfing, rice planting, or touring the beautiful beaches and mountains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Despite this seemingly warm invitation, the US State Department strongly advises travelers against visiting North Korea. Other countries like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand echo this warning.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/overseas\/07\/19\/17\/want-a-themed-tour-north-korea-seeks-foreign-tourists\">ABS-CBN News<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will you add North Korea to your #travelgoals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3125,3587,3586,88],"class_list":["post-19303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-north-korea","tag-north-korea-tourism","tag-tour","tag-travel"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/north-korea-1151137_1280-e1500643519579.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19308,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19303\/revisions\/19308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}