Representatives from two Western travel agencies crossed into North Korea Thursday for the first time since the isolated ...

In August 2024, North Korea said it hoped to send in the first Western tourists by the end of the year. Now, travellers are invited to visit Rason, one of the state’s lesser-seen destinations ...

Located right on the Russian and Chinese borders, the Special Economic Zone of Rason is the only part of North Korea where capitalism is openly promoted. Here, residents can buy and sell houses ...

Tour operators said in January that North Korea would reopen Rason, a city on the border with China, to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers in response to Covid-19.

For the first time in more than five years, foreign tourists can visit North Korea, albeit to the city of Rason, one of the secretive communist state's least visited places. Koryo Tours ...

North Korea reopened its border city of Rason to foreign tourists for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, marking a cautious revival of the country's tourism sector. The first ...

Located right on the Russian and Chinese borders, the Special Economic Zone of Rason is the only part of North Korea where capitalism is openly promoted. Here, residents can buy and sell houses and ...