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

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.

In the seaside city of Wonsan, North Korean families cook up barbecues on the beach, go fishing, and eat royal jelly flavour ice cream in the summer breeze. For their leader Kim Jong Un ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapons fired from an area around the eastern port city of Wonsan were presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles. The South’s military didn’t ...

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 ...

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 mission came with hope and uncertainty. Kim Jong Un, the volatile leader of North Korea, had agreed to turn over the remains of U.S. troops killed decades earlier in the Korean War, and a lone ...

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 ...