Rason, a city on the border with China, will open to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers over ...

Each change at the top in North Korea has raised the prospect of a leadership vacuum or collapse of the Kim dynasty, which has ruled the country since its founding in 1948. So far, each of the ...

A Chinese agency is offering tours to N. Korea to mark late leader Kim Jong Il's birthday. But it's not clear whether the ...

Supreme leaders have only ever been selected hereditarily from male members of the Kim dynasty. Kim Jong Un was assigned the title after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. His father had been ...

Tour operators said in January that the North would reopen Rason, a city on the border with China, to foreign tourists, five ...

The intraparty fiasco was reported widely across North Korean state media in the following days — a rare example of government malpractice being covered by national news outlets.

Koryo Tours opens bookings for North Korean border city trips to celebrate Kim Jong Il's birthday post-pandemic.

However, the much more likely scenario is probably that Kim Jong Un will indeed become the figurehead for a kind of "Kim Dynasty 3.0" — weaker and less centralized, but with no coup or "collapse." ...