[willscott]

Some contextual notes on how this compares to today:

* American citizens have been denied access to anything except specially chartered train cars since 2013.

* Train service runs daily between Pyongyang and the Chinese border at Dandong. It takes much of a day to travel to the borer.

* Train service from Rason up through Tumangang runs twice each month, and a car from that train will hook up with the next trans-Siberian train outside of Vladivostok and continue to Moscow.

* It shouldn't be expected that the same train runs from Pyongyang to rason as onwards to Russia. The state of the tracks between rason and Pyongyang have apparently deteriorated (largely in terms of intermittent power) such that it can take several days to make the trip down the east coast.

* Russians in the Pyongyang embassy regularly book train passage between the city and the Russian border.

* Standard visas issued by DPRK continue to list tumangang as a valid port of entry.

[fooyc]

Do they really have a specific rule for American citizens ?