Multiple Western travel agencies that organise tours to Rason, a city that lies near North Korea’s border with China, had posted updates last month detailing tours they had organised for foreign ...

Koryo Tours last week announced packed five-day itineraries of northern city Rason, with activities including a hike on Mount Shahyang, a boat trip to see seals and a visit to the Rason School ...

Rason may not be known for its allure ... on land crossing permissions from Chinese authorities is not set in stone. North Korea's tourism landscape is notoriously stringent.

These tours were in the northerly city of Rason - chillingly sitting right on the Russian and Chinese borders. Despite this, Pyongyang mysteriously suspended these trips for unclear reasons ...

Koryo Tours, a China-based agency specializing in North Korean tours, said on its website the previous day that "we have been informed that our tours to Rason are temporarily closed." Since September ...

Adventurous tourists were notified last month that tours were being offered to Rason, a city close to the Chinese border, after Western travel agencies were notified of the opening of the area by ...

North Korea has reopened its touristic border city of Rason near China after it was closed in 2020 at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a tour operator. "There has been news that ...

This week she gave her TikTok followers an insight into what it's like staying in the city of Rason, a special economic zone near the borders of China and Russia, which is one of the few places ...

North Korea has halted visits by foreign tourist groups to its Rason special economic zone in a decision that is said to reflect Pyongyang’s concerns over negative perceptions of the country ...

North Korea has suspended foreign tourism to the border city of Rason, weeks after allowing a group of international travellers to enter the nation for the first time in five years, according to ...

North Korea is finally opening its doors to foreign tourists since closing them five years ago during the Covid-19 pandemic. A group of 13 foreign tourists crossed by land from China last month to ...

It opened up to Russian visitors in 2024, but it was only last month that Western tourists were allowed into the remote, eastern city Rason. However several tour companies now say that trips to ...