Podokam hermitage, located in Inner Kumgangsan Mountains, is alleged to have been built in 627 AD. Roger Shepherd Pictures and commentary courtesy of Roger Shepard .

The northern part of Kumgangsan, a vast mountain range along Korea’s eastern coast spanning North and South Korea, is likely to be designated a UNESCO World Her ...

SEOUL, August 27 (Itar-Tass) - South Korea proposed to North Korea to hold talks on October 2 over the resumption of trips of South Korean tourists in Kumgangsan Mountains (Diamond Mountains ...

Pyongyang temporarily barred foreign tourists to the mountain resort on its east coast when it closed ... North Korea has started to promote its now-shuttered tourism project to Kumgangsan, ...

Tours of South Korean nationals to Kumgangsan launched in 1998 were stopped in July 2008 after a North Korean guard shot dead a housewife from Seoul ...

SEOUL — North Korea has started to promote its now-shuttered tourism project to Kumgangsan, appearing to invite foreign tourists back to the reclusive regime soon after shutting its borders amid ...

Pyongyang designated the mountain area as a special tourist zone in May 2011 and has been offering tours there for foreign visitors. The leaders of the two Koreas vowed to resume the inter-Korean tour ...

North Korea is allowing foreign groups to use some South Korea-developed facilities at the Mt. Geumgang resort, the site of a stalled cross-border project, but business remains sparse, a recent ...

PYONGYANG - Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has passed a decision to freeze South Korean real estate in the Kumgangsan tourist region, the Korean Central News Agency /KCNA/ sai ...