As a tour guide for Koryo Tours, Nick Bonner has made weeklong trips to North Korea — one of the world's most secretive and least understood countries — once a year for the last 22 years.
He does it to teach people about architecture.
Bonner recently walked Tech Insider through his tour, beginning at the Arch of Reunification that welcomes people into Pyongyang, the capital city, to the Monument to Party Founding — with its stoic hammer, brush, and sickle.
Motoring down the Reunification Highway toward Pyongyang, travelers see sweeping vistas and even a roadside teahouse at which to rest.
Entering the capital city, visitors pass through the Arch of Reunification. The two women holding a conjoined North and South Korea symbolize supreme leader Kim Il Sung's vision for the two countries.
Visitors on Bonner's tour stay at the Koryo Hotel, just a short drive from Pyongyang's key attractions around Kim Il Sung Square.
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