Our next stop was Dorasan Station, the last northbound train stop before North Korea. The tracks are there, and the train ran briefly when relations improved in 2002. Now it’s a mostly empty station that brings a few in a few tourists to buy things in the gift shop.

They made much of the fact that the tracks go all the way to the UK, though that’s not really a journey most people would want to take. Still, it was kind of interesting to see the entry gate to Pyeongyang.

We had lunch (second-worst pulgogi ever) near the toll gate to Pyeongyang. It seems that you can not go there by train or not go there by car. As my old Korean teacher used to say: “Two way to go this one.”

After lunch we rode t the observatory to peer into North Korea itself.