Tours to North Korea via China are set to resume next week after a five-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to several China-based tour agencies, even though their destination will be ...

Tours of Western travellers are due to enter the North Korean border city of Rason today for the first time since borders ...

Foreign tourists have been permitted to cross the border into the reclusive nation for the first time in five years as Kim ...

A guide who took some of the first foreigners to North Korea in five years told BI that he had tourists from the UK, Jamaica, ...

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

While Russian tourists have been allowed to enter North Korea since February 2024, given warming ties between Moscow and ...

North Korea reopens to foreign tourists for first time since pandemic - Foreign visitors set to return to Rason Special ...

The first trip to depart for Rason is a “Return of North Korean Tourism Tour” for 20 tourists on 12 February. In honour of ...

Foreign tour companies have been given permission to take international tourists to the city of Rason, in the far northeast of North Korea, to pay their respects to the late dictator. It will be ...

Recently, two tour operators with links in China and another based in Spain said they had been notified that foreign travellers were now able to visit the northeastern North Korean city of Rason.

Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours, both based in Beijing, announced that they had crossed the Chinese border into the North Korean special economic zone of Rason to discuss logistics for ...

Koryo Tours last week announced packed five-day itineraries of northern city Rason, with activities including a hike on Mount Shahyang, a boat trip to see seals and a visit to the Rason School ...