By chance in 2018, I went to North Korea on a business trip. The company is doing iron and stainless steel materials trade, often sometimes need to travel, but to Go to North Korea is still the first time, today to talk about some records of travel to North Korea!
At that time, I went to North Korea, I went by train, departed from Dandong Railway Station, and saw it on some tieba and the Internet before going to North Korea, preparing some small domestic gifts before going to North Korea will bring some convenience to yourself, but it is strictly forbidden to bring any disks, CDs and other video audio files. It is best to buy some small snacks bread candy, 5 pieces of cigarettes a pack, these things are very popular in North Korea...
Then is to enter the railway station, handle the relevant procedures, security checks, and enter the customs, after getting on the train, after a while, the train will set off, the train just left the station, on the Yalu River Bridge, when the volunteer army entered the DPRK to fight, it was from here that it continued to flow past, and then became an important transportation hub for Sino-DPRK trade!
After the train crossed the bridge and drove for a while, it arrived at the Sinuiju railway station on the North Korean side, followed by North Korean personnel, who carried out some security checks on everyone... Here's a note (it is strictly forbidden to bring portable hard disks, telephoto cameras over 300mm lenses, large cameras, foreign political leaflets, etc.......). ）
The security check lasts almost 2 hours, during which you can chat with passengers in your own carriage, but don't talk about some sensitive north Korean politics.
The security inspection time is more boring, look out the window, feel that the Sinuiju Railway Station, equivalent to Shenzhen in North Korea, is not as big as some of the fourth-tier city railway stations in our country, and the railway station is relatively old, there is no one, only the border guards and staff, not to mention some vendors on the side of the railway station. Took out my phone to pass the time, and found that the phone also had no signal...
2 hours said fast and fast, the security check is over, the train also started to leave! After the train left the train station, after a while, it came out of the new Uiju city, the whole city is very small, out of the urban area, is the endless rural area of North Korea, looking out the window, the entire railway roadside, are surrounded by barbed wire, every other distance, there is a North Korean soldier standing guard, plus a lot of intricate fields, there are rare North Korean farmers doing farm work, north Korean houses in the distance, giving people a shabby feeling, to be honest, even the houses in my hometown in the 60s are not as good, The first impression that gave me was that North Korea was backward....
On the train, the road outside the window is almost like this, occasionally passing some small towns, but it is also very shabby. Suddenly it was raining, and it was a little overcast and darker, but I looked out the window at the houses and could hardly see the lights in them.
It was close to 16:00 in the afternoon, after a 7-hour train journey, and finally reached, Pyongyang Railway Station............