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North Korea is a state in East Asia. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. It borders with People's Republic of China and Russia to the north, and borders South Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone. It is a single-party state under a united front led by the Korean Workers' Party. Officially a socialist republic, North Korea is considered by many in the outside world to be a totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship. The current leader is Kim Jong-il, son of the late Eternal President Kim Il-sung. It state with a pronounced cult of personality organized around Kim Il-sung. North Korea has an industrialized, autarkic, and highly centralized command economy. North Korea has an entirely government-planned, state-owned economy. Tourism in North Korea is organized by the state owned Tourism Organization. Every group of travelers as well as individual tourists are permanently accompanied by one or two "guides" who normally speak the mother language of the tourist. In July 2004, the Complex of Goguryeo Tombs became the first site in the country to be included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. For citizens of the US and South Korea it is practically impossible to obtain a visa for North Korea.