A North Korean ship believed to have been smuggling coal sank in February after colliding with a Chinese vessel, South Korean media reported Thursday. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign ...

Instead, they were sent to the mysterious eastern port of Rason, which was designated a “special economic zone” over 30 years ago to experiment with capitalism, as China and the Soviet Union ...

Travel groups offering Britons adventures inside the Hermit Kingdom report that trips to the port city of Rason have been put on hold after the country tentatively reopened its doors to foreign ...

North Korea may increase supplies to Russia amid deepening bilateral cooperation. Satellite imagery has captured suspicious activity at the port of Rason, which could indicate the transfer of cargo, ...

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 ...

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 and Young Pioneer Tours, both based in Beijing, announced that they had crossed the Chinese border into the North Korean special economic zone of Rason to discuss logistics for ...

The tourists visited Rason, one of North Korea's least visited and hardest-to-reach areas, last Thursday, it said. Koryo Tours is one of the few agencies that take foreigners on trips to North ...

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 ...