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Mount Kumgang. Tourism in North Korea is tightly controlled by the North Korean government.All tourism is organized by several state-owned tourism bureaus, including Korea International Travel Company (KITC), Korean International Sports Travel Company (KISTC), Korean International Taekwondo Tourism Company (KITTC) and Korean International Youth Travel Company (KIYTC). [1]
Citizens of South Korea seeking to visit North Korea cannot use South Korean passports to travel to North Korea. They must instead submit a North/South Korea visitation verification certificate as well as a departure card to the North Korean immigration officer at the port of entry and go through immigration inspection in North Korea.
The monument marking the site of the Axe Murder Incident in the Joint Security Area on the border of North and South Korea, as seen in 2012. Operation Runaway I, February 14, 1970 – A Korean Air Lines aircraft was hijacked by a North Korean agent on December 11, 1969, and forced to divert to Sondŏk Airfield in Wonsan, North Korea.
South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol claimed he had declared martial law to protect the country from ‘anti-state’ forces
The tunnel is now a tourist site, though still well guarded. [9]Visitors enter either by walking down a long steep incline that starts in a lobby with a gift shop or via a rubber-tyred train that contains a driver at the front or the back (depending on the direction as there is only one set of rails) and padded seats facing forward and backwards in rows for up to three passengers each. [10]
North Korea warned countries on Monday in a statement: don't join the U.S. in action against the Asian state and you will be safe from retaliation.
Visa requirements for North Korean citizens are administrative entry restrictions imposed on citizens of North Korea by the authorities of other states. As of 2025, North Korean citizens have visa-free or visa on arrival access to 40 countries and territories, ranking the North Korea passport 92nd in the world according to the Henley Passport ...
A TV screen reports North Korea has blown up parts of northern side of inter-Korean roads during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on October 15, 2024.