British travel agency plans N.K. tour in April on late leader’s birthday

Yonhap
2/18/2007

A British travel firm is organizing an escorted tour of North Korea in April when the secretive nation celebrates the birthday of its late president, who is still venerated by the North as the “great leader.”

Steppes Travel has been recruiting customers from November for the April 11-26 trip to North Korea, advertised in the firm’s Web site as “the last bastion of communism in the world” and an experience that “will surely leave a lasting impression in your mind.”

The price is 2,795 British pounds (US$5,462) per person, and minimum 10 clients must sign up.

The package starts at Mansudae where the statue of North Korea’s late leader Kim Il-sung is flanked by monuments to the anti-Japanese struggle and the Korean War, and Mangyongdae, Kim’s birthplace. The tourists will then visit Kim’s residence Kumsusan on April 15, his birthday, where they are likely to see one of the country’s largest festivities.

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