North Korea dramatically closed its borders to Western tourists just four weeks after opening them due to travel influencers.

“Since January of 2020, the country has been closed to all international tourists, and we are glad to have finally found an opening in the Rason area, in the far north of North Korea ...

In a celebratory speech addressing construction workers last month, Kim Jong Un said: "The Hwasong area will soon become more ...

North Korea's Kim Il Sung University is exploring the possibility of opening a representative office in Russia's key research ...

Photos show daily life in remote parts of North Korea and its capital, Pyongyang. Slogans and propaganda are common sights on ...

NORTH Korea has unexpectedly blocked tourists from visiting the nation just ... AFP The dictatorship slowly started to open up to Chinese and Russian tourists from 2023 but it only began accepting ...

A British tour guide who shows groups of tourists around North Korea says everyone’s “wrong” about the country — and it’s ...

North Korea criticised a recent agreement by Japan and the United States on co-producing air-to-air missiles as aggravating ...

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North Korea sent an additional 3,000 troops and missiles to Russia at the beginning of 2025 to support its invasion in ...

A tourist has revealed what it's really like to visit North Korea as she filmed the 'dystopian' wake-up call residents hear at 6am. Zoe from Liverpool has spent the last 15 years travelling all ...