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100,000명이 참가 하는 거대 매스 게임에 참관하기 위해 미국의 3개여행 단체가 북한의 관광을 허락 벋아 3년만에 처음으로국경을 넘게 되었다. 미국 여행객을 향한 유래 없는 입국 허락은 두 나라 사이의 뷴명한 긴장 완화의 신호다. 북한은 한국 러시아 중국 유럽으로부터 더 많은 여행객을 원하고 있더. 이 거대 매스게임은 광상곡안무 로 서커스 리듬체조 마루운동 김정일 지도자 찬양등으로 구성된다 미국 여행개글의 입국허용과 지난주 핵문제의 일치는 허기진 나라가 그 동굴로부터 나오겠다는 신호일것이라고 한다. 뭘 바라고 그들의 입국을 허락하는지 뭣때문에 그리 어려운 나라를 들어 가는지, 가장 가까운 지근 거리에 있는 우리는 어떤 태도를 취해아할까, 정부만의 뮨제일까 그렇지는 않을 듯 이건 국가를 넘어 민족의 문제가 아닐런지, anyway, 우린 하나다
A crack in the N. Korean doorway for U.S. tourists
Three groups of Americans will be allowed into county in October
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BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Reclusive North Korea will allow American tourists across its border next month for the first time in three years, in time to take in the spectacle of the country's biggest-ever mass games, involving some 100,000 people.
The tours got the green light following the surprise end earlier this month to the latest round of six-party talks in Beijing, when North Korea and the United States signed a landmark deal in which Pyongyang agreed to give up its nuclear weapons programs in exchange for aid and security guarantees. (Full story)
Pyongyang's subsequent demands that Washington provide civilian nuclear reactors before it dismantles its atomic weapons have cast doubt over the deal. (Full story)But the rare opening to U.S. travelers was a clear sign of an easing of tensions between the two sides, the British organizer of the tours said.
"With the six-party talks going better than a lot of people forecast, there is a general good feeling at the moment, a more friendly feeling," Nick Bonner, founder of Beijing-based Koryo Tours, told Reuters by telephone.
For 13 years, Koryo has been taking tourists to the isolated state, once branded by U.S. President George W. Bush as part of an "axis of evil." It now has official approval to lead three groups of Americans to North Korea next month, and Bonner said he expected about 100 people to sign up.
While North Korea has been trying to attract more tourists from South Korea, Russia, China and Europe, only twice previously, in 1995 and 2002, has it admitted Americans, both times also coinciding with the holding of the Arirang Mass Games.
The games are the world's biggest choreographed extravaganza, part circus act, part rhythmic gymnastics floor, with plenty of reverence for "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il.
At the games and other stops on the tour, which include the USS Pueblo, an American Navy patrol boat captured in 1968 and now displayed in the North Korean capital, each tourist would be accompanied by two guides, standard for international visitors.
North Korean state-run media regularly vilify the United States -- on Wednesday the official communist party newspaper reported U.S. plans for a nuclear strike -- but Bonner said the Americans could expect a warm welcome from their hosts.
Reopening to U.S. tourists and last week's nuclear accord could be signs the impoverished country was ready to come out of its shell."(In North Korea) there is a feeling of opening and particularly with the six-party talks, the feeling that engagement is a way ahead," Bonner said.