North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un was briefed on the development of a nuclear-powered submarine capable of firing missiles during a naval shipyard tour, according to state media, a likely warning to US ...

Tour group operators say the North Korean city of Rason has been closed to foreign visitors, following a recent trip there by 13 international tourists. View on euronews ...

But tourism to North Korea is contentious, especially as travellers have been allowed back before aid workers and most Western diplomats, including the UK's. Critics, including Joanna Hosaniak from ...

Entering North Korea There have been a few false starts in the past, but two weeks ago, Koryo Tours set up a WhatsApp group for travelers flexible enough to enter North Korea on short notice.

said on its website the previous day that "we have been informed that our tours to Rason are temporarily closed." Since September 2023, North Korea only permitted limited Russian group tours. The ...

As North Korea slowly emerges from five years of self-imposed pandemic ... though the capital was off-limits to the ...

DFAT's Smartraveller website has a "do not travel" advisory in place for North Korea. It warns travellers about "the very ...

“I’m going to North Korea!” the 47-year-old said. Weeks later, Arbeit found herself in a restaurant at the “Namsan Hotel,” where a Budweiser refrigerator case sat in the corne ...

In North Korea, Russian tourists are invited to lay flowers at a monument to Soviet soldiers who died fighting to liberate ...

North Korea has halted international trips to a city near its border with China, travel agencies said on Wednesday, abruptly reversing Pyongyang's recent decision to reopen its frontier to tourism ...

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 ...