North Korea reopens its doors to tourism five years later: “Life is similar to what we had in the eighties”

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North Korea reopens its doors to tourism five years later: “Life is similar to what we had in the eighties”

Five years after practically sealing its borders, North Korea, the world’s most airtight country, has reopened them to foreign tourism. At the moment it has done so in a very limited way, giving access to a few visitors and only to the city of Rason, a special economic zone close to the border with Russia and China, in the northeast of the country. The country, already closed to the world, and with one of the highest levels of censorship and dis…