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

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 ...

An extraordinary Soviet secret document has recently surfaced in Germany, shedding light on a figure buried deep within ...

A beach resort dubbed the ‘North Korean Benidorm’ is set to welcome its first guests, but thousands of its rooms might never be filled. The resort in Wonsan, at a former missile launch site ...

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

WONSAN /DPRK’s eastern coast/, September 24 /TASS/. A grand air show, the first in the history of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), will get under way in Wonsan, a port on ...

Last year, North Korea also received Russian children whose fathers died on the battlefield, housing them in the Songdowon children’s recreation center in Wonsan, on the east coast of North ...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile from east coast city of Wonsan today (Thursday). South Korea's military said the ballistic missile was launched this morning flying 240 km to an altitude of 47 km ...

North Korea has since been building luxury hotels and recreational facilities in Wonsan Kalma, envisioning one of the largest single-operator beach resorts in the world. Plans previously showed ...

The tourism industry has provided a crucial source of foreign currency for North Korea, which has struggled under international sanctions. Later this year, the Wonsan-Kalma beach resort is set to ...