The wait is over: Foreigners are finally getting the chance to go back to North Korea after over three years of strict COVID-19 border lockdown.

That is, of course, assuming you’re a high-level government official from Russia or China.

Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu and Chinese Politburo member Li Hongzhong led delegations from their countries to Pyongyang last week to mark the 70th anniversary of North Korea’s “victory” in the Korean War, even joining leader Kim Jong Un to watch a large-scale military parade.

Their trips made the foreign delegations the first outsiders to visit the country in over