On the southeast coast near the border with South Korea, this 5,374-foot mountain is known for both its scenic beauty and as a "sacred symbol" in Korean history and Buddhist lore. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the area started to be developed for toujrism jointly by the North and South, with mostly southern investment, but after more than a million South Koreans came on visits, they were halted in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot dead by the North Korean military under suspicious circusmtances. Tours are still organized in the North, however.
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