Visiting DPRK grows in popularity among Chinese

PYONGYANG - Nearly 70 years ago, in October 1950, hundreds of thousands of young Chinese men and women in uniform crossed the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to fight in the Korean War alongside their Korean comrades.

Nowadays, hundreds of Chinese people cross the Yalu River from the city of Dandong - by train or by bus - to sightsee in the DPRK. Others seek to uncover wartime stories.

Panmunjom, located in the DPRK-Republic of Korea border town of Kaesong, receives international tourists every year. The village, which witnessed the signing of the armistice agreement that halted the Korean War (1950-53), or more recently the historic summit of the heads of the DPRK and the ROK, is now crowded with curious visitors interested in looking into the ROK from inside the DPRK.