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Follow on Google News | North Korea May Allow US Travelers to Visit the DPRK Year-Round and for more than 5 DaysAsia Pacific Travel Ltd Announces that North Korea is Considering Allowing Americans to Visit the DPRK Year-Round and for Longer than the Current 5 Day Limit. The DPRK Decision to be made around January 25, 2010
By: Asia Pacific Travel LTD. This same email from Pyongyang also stated that the North Koreans are considering whether to allow Americans to stay longer than the five day limit that is currently in place. In his reply to the North Koreans, Walter L. Keats, CTC, CMP, President of APTL, further inquired whether Americans will be permitted to take the train across the border from China. This is much cheaper than flying into Pyongyang, and it also allows travelers to see more of the North Korean countryside during the day-long rail journey. Mr. Keats is hopeful at hearing even this preliminary news, explaining that “If the North Koreans let Americans stay longer, we will be able to offer a different and more extensive mix of long and short-stay study tours.” Mr. Keats acknowledges that the most important factor in the possible change in travel policy toward US citizens is the improved relations between the US and the DPRK, as evidenced by the visit last month of Ambassador Stephen Bosworth to Pyongyang. However, he also feels that the meeting he personally had with two DPRK officials at the DPRK UN Mission in New York in December 2009 may have been an additional positive influence. Asia Pacific Travel's North Korean tours are based on over 15 years experience working with the DPRK. Mr. Keats is a North Korea expert and an experienced tour leader who has visited North Korea 19 times since 1995. He escorts almost all of APTL’s North Korean travel programs. Asia Pacific Travel, Ltd. is the only “officially recognized” American tour operator to North Korea with a Letter of Commission from the DPRK (www.northkorea1on1.com) A further announcement about this possible new travel circumstances to the DPRK will be made immediately after the DPRK’s official determination. . # # # About Asia Pacific Travel, Ltd: APTL is a tour operator specializing in custom first-class and deluxe travel to the Asia-Pacific area since 1978. Each year Asia Pacific Travel has arranged custom itineraries for hundreds of outbound passengers for travel to Asia. APTL is the only “officially recognized” American tour operator to North Korea with a Letter of Commission from the DPRK (www.northkorea1on1.com) End
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