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

If there’s one thing that a despot wants, it is to stay in power. North Korea’s totalitarian Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, is ...

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

The birthdays of members of the ruling Kim dynasty are typically feted in the North with large scale public celebrations. The birthday of former ruler Kim Jong Il – father of current leader Kim ...

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.

The birthdays of members of the ruling Kim dynasty are typically feted in the country with large-scale public celebrations. Like his father and grandfather before him (depicted here in a mural ...

It is headed by the hereditary pseudo-monarchy of the Kim dynasty, which, for three generations, has been vested with the overlapping offices of general secretary, president, and commander in chief.