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Name: Gareth Johnson
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About the Author: We are a couple of friends, who have been living in China for the past six years. We’ve visited the DPRK a few times, and have really enjoyed the experience. As ex-pat former teachers living in China, we were on a budget, and found the lack of budget travel options to the DPRK a little disheartening when trying to plan our trip.


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Hidden Floors in Pyongyang Hotels

The Yanggakdo Hotel in Pyongyang was completed in 1995, during the peak of the country’s worst famine – the Arduous March. With several hotels already existing in North Korea’s capital city, it is quite hard to understand what motivated authorities to build another large facility at that time – except that this was the first, […]