Gloria Steinem to lead women's march in North Korea

“We are saying: ‘Take down this isolation,’” she said, according to the report, which also notes that the organizers will meet with North Korean women and tour a maternity hospital, a women’s factory in Pyongyang and a preschool.

Both countries have approved the rare crossing of the DMZ, a rare event that has generated criticism among those who say the event could be used as propaganda by the North.

“There is nothing in this action that reflects prioritizing of one or another government,” the group said, according to The Associated Press.