Foreign Media Start Marathon Journey to North Korea Nuclear Test Site

Foreign Media Start Marathon Journey to North Korea Nuclear Test Site
A North Korean airport official guides South Korean journalists, who will visit the nuclear testing site at Punggye-ri, upon their arrival at Kalma airport in Wonsan, North Korea, May 23, 2018. News1/Pool via Reuters
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SEOUL—International journalists left on a marathon journey to a North Korean nuclear test site on Wednesday, after Pyongyang belatedly cleared a number of South Korean media to witness what it says will be the dismantling of its only nuclear test facility.

Travel will involve an 11-hour train ride, a four-hour bus journey, and then a hike of another hour, a reporter with Russia’s RT said on Twitter.