For many travelers, spending a lot of time in a hotel means you haven’t properly gone out and enjoyed a destination. But in North Korea, the opposite is true. For James Scullin, who has visited the ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s most famous luxury hotel is operating normally despite a fire earlier this month around a raised walkway linking its twin towers that was widely reported ...

A section of the Koryo Hotel, one of the oldest and best known hotels in Pyongyang, caught fire on Thursday, a source who witnessed the fire in the North Korean capital told Reuters. Plumes of black ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's most famous luxury hotel has reopened after renovations that modernized its 1980s, vaguely Soviet, style. The Koryo is one of Pyongyang's best-known and ...

If you’ve ever wondered what the hotel accommodations are like in Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea, wonder no more: A new coffee table book features the photography of just those venues.

Hotels of Pyongyang. By James Scullin and Nicole Reed. Head Tilt Press; 200 pages; £50. AT THE BEGINNING of “Pyongyang”, a song of 2015 by the British band Blur, Damon Albarn, the vocalist, sings ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A China-based travel agency said Saturday an American university student recently detained by North Korea is being held over an unspecified incident at his hotel before he ...

A 330-metre pyramid meant to showcase North Korea’s modernity, the Ryugyong Hotel remains empty decades after construction began. Briton Simon Cockerell, one of the few Westerners granted access, ...

Satellite imagery has shown that a fire broke out at a large-scale building in central Pyongyang in early November, with the extent of the damage yet to be determined, a unification ministry official ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - A section of the Koryo Hotel, one of the oldest and best known hotels in Pyongyang, caught fire on Thursday, sources who witnessed the fire in the North Korean capital told Reuters.