Samjiyon, near North Korea's mountainous northern border with China, is a gateway city to Mount Paektu, where official narratives say the late supreme leader Kim Jong Il was born. His son and ...

BEIJING--For sale at a recent Beijing art exposition was a painting with an asking price of $2,460 that depicted the snow-capped Mount Paektu, the mythical birthplace of the Korean people.

KTG Tours, also based in China, said on its Facebook page Wednesday that it had been told "tourists will be able to go to Samjiyon (Mt. Paektu area) this winter". "Exact dates to be confirmed.

James Hammond is Professor of Geophysics at Birkbeck, University of London, a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow and Director of the Mount Paektu Research Centre. He is also a Fellow and Secretary of the ...