(CNN) A small coterie of foreign reporters has set off on a marathon journey to a remote location in North Korea to witness Pyongyang's purported destruction of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site. We depart for the Punggye Ri nuclear site in a few minutes. pic.twitter.com/9FsO3JHeZv — Will Ripley (@willripleyCNN) May 23, 2018The journalists -- including a CNN crew -- left Wonsan, a port city on North Korea's east coast, where they landed Tuesday after catching a specially-chartered plane from Beijing. That flight was just the first leg in the long journey to Punggye-ri, more than 200 miles (370 kilometers) north of Pyongyang. The journey has been made more difficult by recent heavy rain, which has affected the very basic roads in the area around Punggye-ri.

Source: CNN May 23, 2018 08:43 UTC