CINA

본문

Today actually I wanted to bring here another Chinese joke about the "DPR"K but it seems that the "real life" has to offer us enough "jokes".. Just "enjoy"(*) following story in Korea Times' newest edition:

Round of Golf in Pyongyang in Sight
 

South Koreans may be able to play golf in North Korea as early as June, with a travel agency preparing a golf tour package to Pyongyang.

PyeongHwa(**) Air Travel Agency said Thursday that discussion is underway with the North Korean authorities to launch the golf tour in June and a visit to the mass gymnastic show Arirang in August.

``We are discussing the programs with the North and need to get the Unification Ministry's approval,'' Park Se-jin, a director of the agency, said.

The agency was set up in 2003 by the head of Pyeonghwa Motors, a North Korea-based automaker jointly run by businessmen from the two Koreas. It has provided South Korean citizens with exclusive travel programs to Pyongyang ― about 1,000 visitors in September and October in 2003, and 1,200 in October 2005.

The trips were suspended due to flooding in the North and the nuclear crisis.

``We plan to operate a pilot tour in June. So far there have been no golf trips to the North, so we need to try it and polish the tour program. We also plan to include the Arirang performance in the program starting August when the performance begins,'' Park said.

The program is likely to include one-night accommodation, a round of golf, and a trip to downtown Pyongyang, with the Arirang performance being added to the list in August. ``The golf course is 6,890 yards long. Unlike golf trips to China or Southeast Asia, tourists may not be able to play golf there all day long, and so they may want to go sightseeing around the city,'' Park said.

It has yet to fix the price of the package. The agency's previous programs to Pyongyang cost 1.1 million won ($1,120).

The agency has sent letters introducing its trip plan to people who previously visited Pyongyang through the agency, and 3,000 people have already applied for the special tour, Park said.

Charter flights will be used between Seoul's Gimpo Airport to Pyongyang's Sunan Airport. Korean Air, Asiana Airlines, or North Korea's Air Koryo may carry the tourists...

 
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/03/116_20667.html

* Well, I know.. It's not funny, not really!!
** The Pyeonghwa Group is in the ownership of the Unification Church (통일교회), aka the Moon Sect.