Samjiyon, near North Korea's mountainous northern border with China, is a gateway city to Mount Paektu, where official narratives say the late supreme leader Kim Jong Il was born. His son and ...

Paektu area) this winter". "Exact dates to be confirmed. So far just Samjiyon has been officially confirmed but we think that Pyongyang and other places will open too!" it said. Samjiyon ...

First came a steed dubbed the "military horse of Mt. Paektu", a highly sacred part of North Korea near the border with China. And just behind came another — described as "the favorite horse of ...

James Hammond is Professor of Geophysics at Birkbeck, University of London, a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow and Director of the Mount Paektu Research Centre. He is also a Fellow and Secretary of the ...