But tourism to North Korea is contentious, especially as travellers have been allowed back before aid workers and most Western diplomats, including the UK's. Critics, including Joanna Hosaniak from ...

A British tourist who was the first from his country to visit North Korea since the pandemic five years ago has revealed some ...

that tours to Rason are currently paused," travel agency Young Pioneer Tours said in a notice on its website. Fellow travel agency Koryo Tours said "Rason is temporarily closed", with Beijing ...

(Photo: Nicolas Pasquali) Beijing-based tour operator Young Pioneer Tours, which has been taking tourists to North Korea since 2008, also said the itinerary was less flexible and more structured ...

None of these agencies are in Singapore; most are based in Russia or China and there is one in Australia. Beijing-based Young Pioneer Tours and Koryo Tours took one batch of tourists to visit North ...

And in our briefing we encourage people to listen to and understand them," says Rowan Beard, who runs Young Pioneer Tours, one of two Western companies which resumed trips to the country last week ...

But Young Pioneer Tours, a company that facilitates trips into the country, was finally able to resume operations after being thwarted for the last half-decade. “The North Koreans aren’t robots.

The same day, Young Pioneer Tours (YPT), another China-based agency, also announced the suspension of its tours to Rason, a northeastern special economic zone in North Korea, on its Facebook account.