My favorite N. Korea travelogue is this fellow's, done by train: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ He's a train hobby

My favorite N. Korea travelogue is this fellow's, done by train: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ He's a train hobbyist, a touch obsessed with timetables. He noticed that Moscow-Pyongyang routes were hypothetically opened. He secured a travel visa through the normal routes, and as it turned out, his visa was valid for any entrance to N. Korea. As a result, he entered the DPRK through the Russian border. He was able to walk around in normal N. Korean train stations and talk to the locals, without any government guides or monitors.