A North Korea-focused travel agency has begun recruiting foreign tourists for a Pyongyang tour scheduled to coincide with the ...

North Koreans are swimming and playing at a new beach resort that the country is touting as a boost for tourism.

Rason, a Special Economic Zone on the northeastern coast of North Korea, briefly reopened to foreign visitors in February 2025 for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Koryo Tours organized ...

Satellite images taken Sunday by Maxar Technologies show the 5,000-ton destroyer, as yet unnamed, in a drydock in the port of Rajin, part of North Korea’s Rason special economic zone, which ...

'Hindi ko makita ‘yong rason. Wala akong kinalaman, hindi ako ‘yong nasasakdal sa impeachment complaint,' says Senate President Chiz Escudero With the imminent delays in the impeachment trial ...

Cork woman Janet Newenham is one of only a handful of Westerners to travel to North Korea in recent years. She tells Sarah Horgan what she witnessed in the secretive state, including a strange ...

While the country’s 13 administrative divisions remain closed, Rason, which borders China and Russia, is the only zone to open. It’s a special economic zone, where its economic policies differ ...

The country did not foresee the war in Ukraine and Russia’s need for weapons and troops when it restarted work on building resorts in 2022. After the first month of reopening, the limits on foreign ...

At a school uniform factory in Rason, North Korea, March 2025. Courtesy of Zoe Stephens, Koryo Group tour guide Absent from the itinerary was Pyongyang. Although Russians have been allowed to visit ...

He arrived in the city of Rason on Feb. 20. (See the video at the top of this article.) FLIGHT PASSENGERS NOW PAYING PLANE TICKET TAX TO DEPART POPULAR TRAVEL DESTINATION ...