Just weeks after opening a massive new beach resort, North Korea has temporarily suspended foreign tourism to the self-proclaimed "world-class" facility.

SEOUL—Attempts by the new government of South Korea to improve relations with its neighbor hit a snag Tuesday, after ...

DPR Korea Tour, a website operated by North Korea's tourism authority, says the Wonsan-Kalma coastal resort is "temporarily not receiving foreign tourists".

Wonsan Kalma, with a 2.5 mile beach, is one of Kim Jong-un's most-discussed tourism projects, but the only foreign visitors allowed so far have been Russians.

Russia's Primorsky region, which borders North Korea, said last week that the first group of Russian tourists headed to the Wonsan-Kalma resort would depart on Monday for an eight-day trip which ...

North Korea will open a tourist site on its east coast next week that it calls a prelude to a new era in its tourism industry, though the country still mostly blocks foreign visitors.

North Korea is banning the entry of foreign tourists to a recently opened mega beach resort, a move that dims prospects for the complex that leader Kim Jong Un hailed it as “one of the greatest ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea is banning the entry of foreign tourists to a recently opened mega beach resort, a move that dims prospects for the complex that leader Kim Jong Un hailed it ...

DPR Korea Tour, a website run by North Korea’s tourism authorities, said in a notice Friday that the eastern coastal Wonsan-Kalma tourist complex “is temporarily not receiving foreign tourists.” ...

North Korea has been slowly easing the curbs imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic and reopening its borders in phases. But the country hasn’t said if it would fully resume international tourism.