North Korea

North Korea is one of the rare destinations where planning begins with questions of permission and operating status rather than questions of taste, and this page is built on exactly that premise. The country's capital is Pyongyang, its official language is Korean, its currency is the North Korean won, held in our records as KPW, and the whole country runs on a single time zone, Asia/Pyongyang, with no internal variation to account for. Those four facts hold steady regardless of the news cycle, and they are the only things on this page we state as settled; almost everything else is reference material assembled from official sources, organised around a single defined destination, and it makes no assumption that a trip is available, straightforward or advisable at the moment you happen to be reading.