North Korea has suspended foreign tourism to its massive new Wonsan Kalma beach resort just weeks after the "world-class" facility's opening, a state-run tourism website announced. File Photo by ...

North Korea plans to open its Wonsan Kalma tourist site in June 2025. Pyongyang could see the gigantic beachfront resort as a way to rake in foreign cash. But North Korea experts told BI it's unlikely ...

The authoritarian, nuclear-armed state has a long history of using foreigners as bargaining chips in its nuclear and aid negotiations with the US. Pyongyangs travel ban on Malaysians leaving North ...

North Korea has opened a vast new beach resort, the Wonsan-Kalma eastern coastal tourist zone, to its citizens, state media reported on Wednesday, even as the country largely maintains its strict ban ...

Traveling in North Korea (DPRK) in 2025 offers a unique glimpse into the capital, Pyongyang, and its people beyond the negative media portrayals. As independent travel is not permitted, our visit ...

SEOUL, South Korea — North Koreans swam, rode water park slides and enjoyed other water activities at a newly opened mammoth beach resort, state media reported Wednesday, as the country largely ...

For years, North Korea has remained frustratingly under the radar. Its militarized border keeps people out and encloses its citizens in a community of lies, where leader Kim Jong-un ruled as god. In ...

More than a month ago, Merrill Newman, an elderly American disappeared into North Korea. Pulled off a flight on the final day of a guided tour, the Korean War veteran was missing until he reappeared ...