Tag: Young Pioneer Tours

  • Koryolink international calling rates detailed

    Koryolink international calling rates detailed

    Over the weekend a series of stories from Pyongyang reported that visitors to North Korea can now buy SIM cards for the local Koryolink network so they can make international calls while in the country. Thanks to an update from Young Pioneer Tours, which was the first to report on the new service, we now…

  • Tourists allowed to take in cell phones

    Tourists allowed to take in cell phones

    Young Pioneer Tours, one of the handful of agencies taking tourists into North Korea, reports that a group just returned from the country were permitted by customs officials to take their cell phones into the country. The news is intriguing because North Korea has long taken phones from visitors as they cross the border. The…