Last October, a video of tanned, blond Russians relaxing on a North Korean beach went viral. That beach is in Wonsan, on the Kalma peninsula — a stretch of North Korea's eastern coast now home ...

October 10, 2017 The seaside city of Wonsan holds fond memories for Kim Jong Un, according to people who know him. In 2015, North Korea announced plans to rebuild the city as a tourist hotspot.

Tourism in North Korea is very tightly controlled, though Kim Jong-Un has made a point of opening the country to Russians.

In the summer of 1900, Francis Arthur Coleridge, a 30-year-old Englishman with the Indian Civil Service, made a brief visit to Wonsan aboard the Japanese steamship Tarien Maru. Coleridge had a ...

The Wonsan-Kalma tourist zone, slated to open October 2019, will be a huge complex with hotels, a marina, a sports complex, water slides and more. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un highlighted the ...

The Wonsan-Kalma zone is one of Kim's most talked-about tourism projects since the plans were announced in 2015 and North Korea has been building luxury hotels and recreational facilities there to ...

A Texas woman who underwent surgery on her jaw now speaks with a British accent. She has a rare neurological disorder. North Korea publicly executed around 80 people earlier this month, many for ...

North Korea plans to open its Wonsan Kalma tourist site in June 2025. Pyongyang could see the gigantic beachfront resort as a way to rake in foreign cash. But North Korea experts told BI it's ...