The Starbucks outlet is one of only a few ways for South Koreans and international tourists to get a look inside North Korea, even if it’s from afar, without setting foot there. It offers an alternative to tours of the DMZ, which draws tons of tourists travelers each year, according to the Korea Tourism Organization.

Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a new Starbucks at a South Korean border observatory. Customers have to pass a military checkpoint before entering the observatory at Aegibong Peace Ecopark,