Tourism In North Korea

North Korea claims that the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone will give competition to Benidorm, a popular tourist destination in Spain.

A few hundred foreigners lined up in Kim Il Sung stadium Sunday for the Pyongyang marathon, less than half of last year's contingent with Western tourism to North Korea battered by nuclear tensions and a US travel ban.

When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea almost six years ago, many North Koreans thought that their lives were going to improve. But the "Great Successor," as he is called by the regime, has turned out to be every bit as brutal as his father and grandfather before him.

In the seaside city of Wonsan, North Korean families cook up barbecues on the beach, go fishing, and eat royal jelly flavour ice cream in the summer breeze. For their leader Kim Jong Un, the resort is a summer retreat, a future temple to tourism, and a good place to test missiles

North Korea's tourism agency has launched a website offering holiday options ranging from surfing to rice planting, despite strong US warnings to avoid travel to a nation where several trips have ended in jail.

North Korea officially reopened its borders today to foreign tourists and businessmen nearly five months after shutting them over fear of the deadly Ebola virus, tour agencies and a diplomatic source told Reuters.

China is planning an international tourism zone in its northeastern border area with Russia and North Korea, state news agency Xinhua said today, in Pyongyang's latest push for new investment.

North Korea claims that the Wonsan-Kalma Coastal Tourist Zone will give competition to Benidorm, a popular tourist destination in Spain.

A few hundred foreigners lined up in Kim Il Sung stadium Sunday for the Pyongyang marathon, less than half of last year's contingent with Western tourism to North Korea battered by nuclear tensions and a US travel ban.

When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea almost six years ago, many North Koreans thought that their lives were going to improve. But the "Great Successor," as he is called by the regime, has turned out to be every bit as brutal as his father and grandfather before him.

In the seaside city of Wonsan, North Korean families cook up barbecues on the beach, go fishing, and eat royal jelly flavour ice cream in the summer breeze. For their leader Kim Jong Un, the resort is a summer retreat, a future temple to tourism, and a good place to test missiles

North Korea's tourism agency has launched a website offering holiday options ranging from surfing to rice planting, despite strong US warnings to avoid travel to a nation where several trips have ended in jail.

North Korea officially reopened its borders today to foreign tourists and businessmen nearly five months after shutting them over fear of the deadly Ebola virus, tour agencies and a diplomatic source told Reuters.

China is planning an international tourism zone in its northeastern border area with Russia and North Korea, state news agency Xinhua said today, in Pyongyang's latest push for new investment.