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

A remote part of North Korea is set to reopen to tourists this month, the first organised tour open to international visitors since the country’s borders closed in January 2020. The packed, five-day ...

North Korean defectors Yu Hyuk and Kim Seok are making their way into the K-pop industry as members of 1Verse. Despite their ...

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

The packed, five-day itinerary ... It states: “While daily life in the capital city, Pyongyang, may appear calm, the security situation in North Korea can change quickly with no advance warning ...

Yu Hyuk was just nine years old when he started begging on the streets of North Hamgyong, one of the poorest provinces in ...

This marks the first time North Korea has opened its borders to international tourism since January 2020. Tourists will be ...

Machine gun and artillery fire echoed through a barren valley Monday as U.S. and South Korean troops trained together in ...

One defector said soldiers were given just three bullets each during the rare shooting drills. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Neither North Korea nor China have commented on the plans ... Il — father of current leader Kim Jong Un — is marked as Day of the Shining Star on February 16, and typically features large ...

On Feb. 16, North Korea had large parades and displays to celebrate the Day of the Shining Star. Before the pandemic, the country allowed hundreds of thousands of tourists, which provided extra ...

SEOUL, Feb 8 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday its nuclear weapons ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international ...