The resort is aimed at boosting tourism in North Korea, a hermit kingdom with minimal connections to the outside world.

NORTH Korea has unexpectedly blocked tourists from visiting the nation just weeks after the dictatorship bizarrely opened up ...

Known as the Wonsan-Kalma project, and built at a former missile launch site, the so-called holiday destination is said to finally be ready to welcome visitors from abroad. It follows years of ...

The main events will take place in the territory of Wonsan’s Kalma airport, the second major airport in North Korea. The construction of a new air hub, which had replaced a former air base ...

Later this year, the Wonsan-Kalma beach resort is set to open and is already advertising tour dates for Russian visitors. Read next ...

SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Yonhap) -- A Russian travel agency has begun attracting tourists to North Korea's new Kalma tourist zone along the east coast, potentially bringing Russians as the first foreign ...

The Asahi Shimbun obtained an image that was taken last autumn showing a construction site at the Wonsan-Kalma coastal tourist zone in the eastern part of North Korea. Whereas Kim demanded the ...

Earlier, North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun central newspaper reported that Kim Jong-un continues to work with documents as he sent a letter of gratitude to construction workers of the Wonsan-Kalma ...

The origins of skiing in Korea remain somewhat uncertain. Some claim that modern skiing began near Wonsan, now in North Korea’s Kangwon Province, in 1904 (or 1923, depending on the source), when ...