North Korean officials have suspended foreign tourism visits to the insular nation about a month after lifting restrictions ...

A North Korean ship believed to have been smuggling coal sank in February after colliding with a Chinese vessel, South Korean media reported Thursday. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign ...

The country briefly reopened to non-Russian tourists for the first time in five years in February, only to suspend entry ...

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 ...

The same day, Young Pioneer Tours (YPT), another China-based agency, also announced the suspension of its tours to Rason, a northeastern special economic zone in North Korea, on its Facebook account.

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

North Korea has suspended foreign tourism to the border city of Rason, weeks after allowing a group of international travellers to enter the nation for the first time in five years, according to ...

“Since January of 2020, the country has been closed to all international tourists, and we are glad to have finally found an opening in the Rason area, in the far north of North Korea,” Cockerell said.

Multiple Western travel agencies that organise tours to Rason, a city that lies near North Korea’s border with China, had posted updates last month detailing tours they had organised for foreign ...

“Since January of 2020, the country has been closed to all international tourists, and we are glad to have finally found an opening in the Rason area, in the far north of North Korea ...