{"id":66360,"date":"2024-08-23T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/23\/north-korea-is-reopening-to-tourists-after-almost-five-years-but-will-anyone-go"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:24:47","slug":"north-korea-is-reopening-to-tourists-after-almost-five-years-but-will-anyone-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66360","title":{"rendered":"North Korea is reopening to tourists after almost five years, but will anyone go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the isolated country closed its borders to keep out Covid-19, tour companies are celebrating the resumption of travel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> is to welcome back international tourists at the end of the year, according to travel agencies, but experts have warned that the long-awaited opening up could fall victim to political tensions and the country\u2019s brutal winters.<\/p>\n<p>The North sealed its borders and banned international visitors soon after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">Covid-19<\/a> pandemic took hold in early 2020, fearing the virus could cripple its already fragile health services. The closure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/05\/north-korea-economic-crisis-food-and-medicine-shortages-covid\">hit trade with China<\/a> and denied the regime tourist dollars, while its leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/29\/kim-jong-un-could-be-sheltering-from-covid-19-pandemic-say-us-and-seoul\">sheltered<\/a> at his coastal holiday home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/23\/north-korea-is-reopening-to-tourists-after-almost-five-years-but-will-anyone-go\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the isolated country closed its borders to keep out Covid-19, tour companies are celebrating the resumption of travelNorth Korea is to welcome back international tourists at the end of the year, according to travel agencies, but experts have warn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-travel"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66361,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360\/revisions\/66361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}