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        <title>RE: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[<i>DPRK visas are arranged by the tour company and are not pasted into your passport</i><br />...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:32:36 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <title>Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Good evening,<br />...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:24:14 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <title>Re: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[What you want is not possible.  You must go with a tour group that originates outside the DPRK, generally starting from Beijing.  You are trying to do things backwards.  Do not make any plane arrangements until you have been in contact with one or more...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:21:07 +0000</pubDate>

        
            <author>jiejiebigsis@yahoo.com</author>
        

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        <title>Re: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If you live in a country that has a DRPK consulate (or can arrange to deal with that consulate) you can get your own DPRK visa stamped in your passport.  Alternatively, you can just leave the visa details to your tour company and you will travel on a...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:34:56 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <title>Re: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The easiest way is to just find a tour company and see if they have a group tour at the time you want.  If no group timing works for you, they will arrange a single tour at greater cost.  After that they will do all the DPRK work.  All you have to do is...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:44:47 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <title>RE: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I looked into going to the DPRK when I was living in Shanghai/Beijing, its not possible to enter DPRK independently as a foreigner. You need to go with a tour. I inquired with a lot of different people that have been living in Beijing that have been...]]></description>
        

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        <title>RE: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[JieJie,<br />...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:39:27 +0000</pubDate>

        

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        <title>RE: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[#4 true that, and I know some Europeans with the pasted-in-passport type, but they were consultants working in the DPRK not tourists.  Maybe European-based Korea Konsult clients do more pasted-type.   However, it seems the largest number of visitors go...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:46:33 +0000</pubDate>

        
            <author>jiejiebigsis@yahoo.com</author>
        

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        <title>RE: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Artabanes,<br />
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I went last August.  Hmmm...don't know if it's an embassy-by-embassy thing or if there is any rhyme or reason to the single-corner-glued-in visa.]]></description>
        

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        <title>RE: Arrange a journey yourself?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This is the first I hear about such a single corner rip-out visa. When I mentioned pasted in the passport, I did mean properly glued in. Without asking anything, passport was stamped on entry, exit, plus during our stay two registration stamps indicating...]]></description>
        

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