Beijing-based Koryo Tours have begun offering helicopter tours of Pyongyang as part of its wider travel packages throughout North Korea.
Using a 1970s Soviet-manufactured Mil MI-17 helicopter tourists can enjoy a choice selection of sights such as the Ryungyong Hotel, the May Day Stadium, and the Taedong River during a forty-minute flight.
According to a source in the Daily Mail tourists are forbidden from taking photos of so-called sensitive sites, but are otherwise left to photograph the city at will. The passengers were forbidden from taking photographs during the stage of the flight between Pyongyang Sunan International Airport and the city of Pyongyang.
Kim Jong Un has reportedly set the Korean People’s Army to
task in attempting to alleviate on-going food shortages throughout North Korea.
As reported by the
Daily Express on Monday 23rd November 2015, Un and his closest aides (plus the ever-present professional
photography crew) embarked on a tour of North Korea’s August 25 Fishery Station
and its seemingly-countless stocks of freshly packaged seafood.
This comes following
a United Nations report in May 2015 that 70% of North Korea’s 24.6 million
population are classed as ‘food insecure’.
