A group of foreign journalists on Wednesday set off on a long journey to a remote location in North Korea to cover Pyongyang’s dismantling of its Punggye-ri nuclear test site. 

The Associated Press reported that a train carrying the journalists left the North's port city of Wonsan on Wednesday night. 

The report said that the journalists were put in sleeping cars on the train, four bunks to a compartment, adding the compartments had windows covered with blinds, and the journalists were told not to open the blinds throughout the journey. 

The journalists reportedly paid their own costs for the trip, with the train fare being 75 U.S. dollars per person round trip and each meal costing 20 dollars. 

The reporters are expected to travel for about 12 hours by train from Wonsan to the Jaedok Station near the nuclear site, several more hours by bus and finally hike for about an hour to the remote test site.

[Photo : YONHAP News]