Rason, the oldest and largest of North Korea’s 29 economic development zones, has been central to the country’s push to attract foreign investment. It has one of North Korea’s first and biggest ...

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. Multiple Western travel ...

Heavy rains and landslides in North Korea’s border region with Russia have resulted in over a hundred flooded homes and damaged roads and railways, according to NK Pro analysis of satellite imagery.

As the prospect of a political deal over North Korea starts to look tantalizingly real, the question naturally arises: what next? The lifting of economic sanctions by itself won't transform the North ...

Tomas Novotny has been in North Korea two days, and he looks frazzled. It was a long journey from Prague, and standing on the street in downtown Rajin, his government minder by his side, he can ...

The North Korean free trade zone of Rajin-Sonbong isn’t sparking a revolution. But it’s a key starting point. In 1991, the North Korean government dubbed Rajin-Sonbong (Rason) a free trade zone to ...

Unconventional to say the least, life inside North Korea is often concealed. Pyongyang is often mentioned due to it being the capital, but Rason — the special economic zone — is one of North Korea’s ...

SEOUL, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Once a North Korean experiment in limited capitalism, the Rason Special Economic Zone appears to be the epicentre of the isolated country's growing cooperation with Russia, ...

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