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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Korea has reopened to Western tourists this week. Westerners can't visit Pyongyang, but they can go on tours to the Rason ...

The secretive state is reopening to the world after five years – here’s what tourists can expect on the strict, five-day itinerary Greg Dickinson is an award-winning journalist with 15 years of ...

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, ...

North Korea has opened a large new pub called the Tumen River Beer House in Rason, a key land gateway to Russia, the state-run Korean Central Television (KCTV) reported. Korean Central Television ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If Pyongyang is North Korea's showpiece city – albeit an empty and forbidding place – then the country's interior is something else altogether. In this desolate city 800 kilometres from the capital, ...

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