North Korea opened its doors to international tourists after a gap of five years. However, three weeks on, Rason, a city near ...

North Korea has abruptly stopped international trips to a northeastern border city near China, less than three weeks after it opened it up for tourists since the pandemic. At such a critical moment in ...

North Korea has once again closed its borders, suspending foreign tourism just weeks after the secretive state welcomed its ...

Visitors were taken to Rason, in the country’s special economic zone, on a five-day trip organised by Beijing-based Koryo ...

The country has halted international trips to a city near its border with China, travel agencies said, abruptly reversing Pyongyang's recent decision to reopen its frontier to tourism after five years ...

Western tourists had three weeks to experience North Korea - which has remained closed to travellers from non-allied states - ...

The Beijing-based travel company Koryo Tours said it arranged a five-day trip from Feb. 20 to Feb. 24 for 13 international ...

Fellow travel agency Koryo Tours said "Rason is temporarily closed", with Beijing-based general manager Simon Cockerell telling AFP that those already in North Korea would "finish their trips as ...

The Rason SEZ was set up in 1991, bordering Russia and China. As an SEZ, it's one of the more international-facing regions in ...

Tourists from Singapore can only visit North Korea as part of organised tours conducted by 10 agencies pre-approved by the ...

After the pandemic began, North Korea quickly banned tourists, jetted out diplomats and severely curtailed border traffic in ...

Luca Pferdmenges, a travel influencer, was among the first Western tourists to visit North Korea since 2020. He was surprised ...