Travel groups offering adventures inside the Hermit Kingdom report that trips to Rason have been put on hold after the ...

North Korea has stopped tourists from visiting, just weeks after the first Western tourists entered the country for the first ...

North Korea has halted international trips to a city near its border with China, travel agencies said on Wednesday, abruptly ...

After a five-year hiatus, tours have been allowed into North Korea again and the tourists have described what it's really like.

But tourism to North Korea is contentious, especially as travellers have been allowed back before aid workers and most ...

But on Thursday, Pyongyang allowed tour groups to visit the country's Rason Special Economic Zone, a region near the Russian and Chinese borders. On Thursday morning, Rowan Beard of Young Pioneer ...

North Korea closed its borders five years ago when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and they have remained shut ever since.

Another travel agency, Young Pioneer Tours, also uploaded a picture of a passport with a North Korean border stamp, declaring they were “first to be back in five years”. Koryo Tours last week ...

But they hope to confirm the opening of Rason to tourism in "the coming days". Another travel agency, Young Pioneer Tours, also uploaded a picture of a passport with a North Korean border stamp ...

Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours, both based in Beijing, announced that they had crossed the Chinese border into the North Korean special economic zone of Rason to discuss logistics for ...