Pyongyang Helicopter Tours

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.