Why visit the DPRK with Chollima Group?
1. We can get you closer than anyone else to the real DPRK

Previous travellers to the DPRK claim that they feel they were seeing only a small portion of the country, namely what the DPRK government wanted tourists to see. This is certainly so; if visiting the country as a tourist through KITC, the national tourism authority, and its associated foreign tour companies you are permitted to see only what is on the tourist paths and little else.

Chollima Group can take you further than that. Our principal contacts dealing with visitors to the country is not KITC but the National Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. This is a superior organisation with the capacity to report directly to Kim Jong Il himself and possessing greater powers than KITC. Through this organisation, we can create itineraries taking in not just the normal tourist routes but other places of interest beyond these, as well as placing our guests in circumstances and situations that the average tourist wouldnt find themselves in. A much greater degree of interaction with Korean citizens is possible, whether it is eating in local (rather than tourist-designated) restaurants, visiting and even participating in co-operative farm work, or just strolling around Pyongyang and taking in the scenes; just a few examples.

Lasting from 2 weeks to several years, and covering skills from beginner to expert, we can put together a personalised training package to suit your needs. Practising Taekwondo groups from around the world are welcome and a group training and instruction course can easily be arranged to suit your requirements.

I was wondering how I might go about getting a portrait or some other item of the Great and Dear Leaders since I want my otherwise empty living quaters to adorned with them as a reminder of what we must strive for in our everyday life here in England.

Long Live DPRK!

Everybody knows the North Koreans enjoy some of the best living conditions in the world. Much of the information on Western media sources is the fabricated propaganda of shameless imperialists and their treacherous allies.

To suggest they are starving is a scandalous lie, the likes of which often propagated by green-eyed Western governments in a attempt to discredit the success of D.P.R.K economic policy.

Confronted with its harshest economic woes, Pyongyang formally kicked off the "hardship march" in 1995. Workers encountered tremendous ordeals as the mammoth project was resumed at such a juncture in time. The (North) Korean Central News Agency, evaluating Kim Jong Il's five-year rule in 1999, cited the Kumgangsan Dam project as one of the five "amazing events" that took place in the period.

It is difficult to know the exact reason why the North constructed the Kumgangsan Dam, but troops and officials mobilized in the project have testified that it was "to solve power shortages in the Kangwon provincial area," and "to utilize the dam for military purposes in a war."

Still another North Korean defector, who was lieutenant colonel at the Pyongyang Garrison Command at the time, quoted Kim Il Sung as claiming "the dam, once completed, could be more destructive than a nuclear bomb," adding, "Had the dam had no justifiable military objectives, Kim Jong Il would not been so attached to that project when a large number of people were starving to death."

The Mount Kumgang Dam construction was literally a "project of death." "An entire 40-plus company were buried in water while drilling an underground waterway," claimed Kim Chang-shik, who took part in the project as a rock driller for a few years beginning in 1995. "We had to work with primitive equipment, putting up with hunger." To help fill manpower shortages, even female members of mobile propaganda teams in Pyongyang were mobilized for the project.

Pyongyang disclosed in 1986 that 50,000 troops would be deployed in the project. To boost the morale of troopers, the authorities conferred large numbers of Kim Il Sung decorations, Kim Jong Il memorial medals, labor hero and distinguished driver titles.

President Kim Il Sung is the eternal sun of the nation and a lodestar of national reunification as he dedicated his whole life to the country and the nation and performed immortal feats for the cause of national reunification, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article.

11TH DAY -28TH JULY- MONDAY
Volunteer work in the Taek Am farm
Lunch with the peasants
Return to Pyongyang. On our way back visit an ostrichs farm.