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

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 ...

Rason has operated differently from the rest of North Korea since it was declared a special economic zone in 1991. It has been used as a testing ground for new economic policies, ...

Rason, established in 1991 as a special economic zone to attract foreign investment, was never as popular a destination as the capital Pyongyang, which remains closed to all but Russian tourists.

Mike claimed that Rason was a form of 'experiment by the North Koreans' to introduce some form of capitalism into the country. One of the guides explained: ...

Rason, located in the northeast of the country near the borders of China and Russia, has rarely been visited by Western tourists. The area became the North's first special economic zone in 1991 ...

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 ...

The group entered the country through China on their trip to Rason in the far northeast — more than 500 miles from the capital city, Pyongyang, which once welcomed occasional tourism groups, ...

The Rason Special Economic Area, in the far northeast of the nation, is a mountainous region sharing land borders with China and Russia. It also has a seashore.

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 ...