DPRK wants ROK officials to be allowed to visit Kim Il-sung’s tomb
by Richardson ~ December 15th, 2005. Filed under: Engagement, Korean Culture.This seems to be a reasonable request (although not as a ‘demand’) at face value, but it depends on whether or not official ROK delegations would be required to bow (PDF) or pay homage to Kim Il-sung, or at least strongly encouraged to do so. North Koreans have not and would not be required to take such an action in South Korea, and a national cemetery is not quite the same as Kim Il-sung’s tomb:
North Korea has demanded that official South Korean delegations to the North are allowed to visit the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where former leader Kim Il-sung lies embalmed… The North Koreans complained Seoul was not responding in kind after a North Korean delegation visited Seoul’s National Cemetery during Independence Day celebrations this year, he said.
December 20th, 2005 at 8:57 am
This is one of the major factors preventing me from visiting that DPRK (that, and the horrible price).
http://www.koryogroup.com/index.html