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North Korea!? 

Americans (including Korean Americans) are welcome to apply with us to travel to North Korea for the Mass Games currently scheduled for this August through early October. 

As a new and education oriented company, we offer lower rates and longer, more involved, unique trips - more bang for your buck - than any of our competitors!  Please see our group trip details below including information, dates and prices.  Special prices for current students and professors! 

For our DPRK group tour application click here for word and here for pdf

North Korea in Brief 

North Korea - despite its official name, is not even close to being "democratic", for the "people", or a "republic".  Instead, North Korea is one of the last remaining Stalinist regimes left in the world.  Although labeled by former US President George W. Bush as part of an axis of tyranny and"evil", North Korea is not a nation that can simply be labeled and dismissed; the situation is far more complicated and historically traumatic for the Koreans.  Most of the rest of the world has long since forgotten the horrors of the Korean War, but not the Koreas, especially the North.  A people and a nation that have been together, united as one, for thousands of years has over the last seventy odd years been separated and his historical trauma of the Korean war, centuries of foreign intervention in Korean affairs (be it Western, American or Japanese), and a battle for legitimacy waged over the Cold War has defined "modern" Korean history. The memories of Japanese colonization followed by American fire bombs and a divided homeland are still etched in the minds of the North Koreans - be it by choice or carefully crafted paranoid propaganda.  

North Korea is the epitome of struggle, a nation that preaches class struggle, is waging a struggle for legitimacy over the Korean peninsula, and fiercely independent and separated from the outside world, the DPRK is not as evil as misunderstood. The policies of the DPRK - both international and domestic - all fall in line with modern Korean history and historical trauma, a desire to become or at least appear as a strong, united, legitimate, and equal nation that not only has the ability to exist on the world state on its own, but also project an image of total unity and oneness around a national ideology (and leader with a god-king like place in society).  

We will take you to North Korea to see and experience what this last remaining Stalinist-state - self-defined as socialist and supportive of the Juche idea of oneness, independence and self-reliance - has to offer and show.  This is a rare view into a unique society, that, as history suggests, will ultimately become just that, another piece of Korean history. 

NORTH KOREA GROUP TRIPS 2009!  

조선민주주의인민공화국

Want to come? APPLY HERE! 

Type:                  Group Trip - for dates, see below description 

Duration:          11 days (5 days in the DPRK, 6 days in China)

Locations:         Beijing, P'yongyang, Kaesong, Dandong, Shenyang

Start and End: Beijing, China

Cost:                  Regular $1,699

                           Students with ID $1,499

                           professors traveling with students may qualify for further

                           discounts 

Sign-up by:       June 15th, 2009 

Description:     US citizens, in addition to all non-South Korean citizens, may

                          travel with us to the DPRK this summer to experience the

                          Arirang Mass Games in P’yongyang!  In addition, we will

                          organize visits to the North Korean city of Kaesong and the

                          DMZ, ride through the North Korean countryside by train on

                          our way to the Chinese-border towns of Sinuiju and Dandong,

                          wander the old Manchurian capital at Shenyang, hike a rarely

                          visited and unique un-restored section of the Great Wall, and

                          meander through the hidden gems and modern marvels of new

                          and old Beijing.  North Korea is opening her gates for American

                          citizens for a short period of time, don't miss the chance to visit!*

If you would like more information, a detailed itinerary or have any questions please e-mail us at LearningBeyongBorders@gmail.com.  Please see below for more information.

*Please note, the running of this trip is pending the DPRK government’s final confirmation of summer event celebrations.  Also, all DPRK in-country arrangements are completely government controled and travel itineraries are set by the authorities.  We will be coordinating this trip with our Chinese and North Korean partners.