How many tourists go to North Korea every year?
It is estimated that less than 2000 western tourists visit DPRK every year and although this number is rising it is still an exclusive club to be a member of. There are 20 – 30,000 Chinese visitors a year, many of them do not go to Pyongyang but the most common other tourists that you are likely to see will be Chinese. Occasionally we meet a group of American Marines in DPRK who are there on the MIA/POW mission (retrieving the remains of US soldiers killed in the Korean War) which is always interesting as they are perhaps the last people you expect to meet in Pyongyang!
