According to Slate, North Korea will host you for 5 days if you're American, and 10 days if you're a non-American foreigner during their mass games (Arirang). The entire trip will be scripted, and you are forbidden to talk to any locals. If you want the unscripted tour, tell your handler that you are a journalist.
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Koryo Tours arranges these tours. Although I've never been, they seem to do a good job considering, and they've put together 3 (soon to be 4, I believe) incredible documentaries about North Korea.
http://www.koryogroup.com/
Otherwise, you might need to be this guy to get in:
http://www.songunpoliticsstudygroup.org/dprktrip/dprktrip.html
http://www.songunpoliticsstudygroup.org/JohnPaulCuppInterview.html
Careful, Chuck -- conservative commentators like Joshua Stanton at One Free Korea will accuse you, along with the entire State Department, of enabling the regime and coddling dictators. To me, the small amount of foreign currency they would get is far outweighted by the benefits that would accrue personally (and ultimately to the nation-state where one funnels loyalty, admonishments, etc.) by going to check out Pyongyang. Mass Games are serious phenomenon, should be studied in their own right.
