Female activists who plan to walk across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to call for peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday.
 
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the committee in charge of the event held a welcoming banquet in Pyongyang for them.
 
Some 30 activists from 15 countries, including Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, are taking part in the campaign, led by U.S. activist Gloria Steinem.
 
The activists have announced that they will hold an event in Pyongyang and march from North to South Korea across the DMZ on May 24. The South Korean government, however, has recommended the use of overland routes along the Gyeongui Line railway instead of passing via the truce village of Panmunjeom.