Trip to the DPRK -- AWESOME pics. - Soviet-Empire.com U.S.S.R.

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 11 Dec 2010, 23:46
New Comrade (Say hi & be nice to me!)

12 Dec 2010, 13:40

TheRussianLord: the guy who took the pictures studied Journalism so he must know something about taking pics and also about choosing what to publish.

Tails: yeah, they took the Trans-Siberan and went into the DPRK through Vladivostok. That is a usual route for North Koreans, but very rare for foreign travellers.

RedComissar: the president of the KFA is Alejandro Cao de Benos from Catalonia, but it is an international organization and all its members have the same rights. North Koreans make no differences because of nationality.

If someone wants me to translate something by Juan (the guy who took the pics) I will gladly do it. His reports are very interesting. I had the chance to speak to him face to face some time ago and he was reall well informed about the DPRK.

sta8oukos

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Nov 2010, 11:45
New Comrade (Say hi & be nice to me!)

12 Dec 2010, 22:43

Autodeterminacio wrote:
Tails: yeah, they took the Trans-Siberan and went into the DPRK through Vladivostok. That is a usual route for North Koreans, but very rare for foreign travellers.

Is it still possible to travel through this route?

Autodeterminacio

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 11 Dec 2010, 23:46
New Comrade (Say hi & be nice to me!)

12 Dec 2010, 23:00

I don't know for sure, comrade sta8oukos: I'm trying to find out because I would be interested in travelling that way when I go to the DPRK.

I used to think that travelling by train was forbidden for foreigners and that the only way to the DPRK for us was by airplane from Beijing or Vladivostok. But recently I found some info that said just the opposite thing, so now I can't be sure about the right answer.

I will let you know when I get more information!

Vishzhlyshlyevsky

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 04 Dec 2010, 13:38
Unperson

13 Dec 2010, 21:11

Awesome,great pictures,North Korea really looking like paradise.

Red Armenian

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 15 Nov 2010, 16:48
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Komsomol

20 Dec 2010, 16:55

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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 22 Oct 2004, 15:15
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Party Bureaucrat

27 Dec 2010, 18:31

sta8oukos: according to the blog itself, after the trip, they received an email that the possibility no longer exists.

Autodeterminacio: people can still take the train from China. The one from Russia is the one that the guys from the blog took, which wasn't really intended for tourism:

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As I wrote, we bought tickets for the Tumangan-route by ourselves and didn't tell the travel agency or KITC (the state tourist agency in North Korea) in advance about our real route into North Korea. It was a dangerous experiment and KITC and the travel agency were quite upset after that. And they also took precautions to prevent, that such happens again: Now the tickets to Pyongyang have to be categorically organized by the travel agency, individual ticket buying is no longer accepted by KITC, otherwise they would cancel the trip (and the visa).
That's why I do not recommend to repeat what we did!

http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/20 ... train.html

More info in that link as well.