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Ah yes, I knew you would bring up the Estonian K70-fellow. 
But I'm not there (just) for the girls...
In fact, lately my relation to Estonia has been comparable with yours towards the DPRK...
My mother was born in Bargteheide, a small village north of Hamburg, while my father was born in the village of Elmshagen, in Hessen. They moved to Braunschweig in June 1999 after moving out of Hamburg and Berlin.
But I'm not there (just) for the girls...In fact, lately my relation to Estonia has been comparable with yours towards the DPRK...
My mother was born in Bargteheide, a small village north of Hamburg, while my father was born in the village of Elmshagen, in Hessen. They moved to Braunschweig in June 1999 after moving out of Hamburg and Berlin.
The Estonaian K 70-fellow enabled me a very interesting trevelling across this nice country, a homestay, combined with car-related visits on junkyards and car-meetings, plus "mainstream-tourism".
About the birthplaces of your parents: they were close enough to the Iron curtain, that they could join the
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiner_Grenzverkehr#Grenznaher_Verkehr_zwischen_de- r_Bundesrepublik_Deutschland_und_der_Deutschen_Demokratischen_Republik
(the counties Stormarn and Kassel-country were included), which means travelling to the communist world without much effort.
Did they? I did (Hannover-country was also included). Fortunately, because the experiences in the cruel communist sphere were unforgettable and irretrievable.
P.S. My Estonian friend told me, that when you understand Estonian, you understand for ca.50% Finnish, too.
The people in the Estonian SSR could air the finnish TV and radio, so they were the only Soviet citizens with an access to Western media programmes.