BEIJING: North Korea has halted international trips to a city near its border with China, travel agencies said on Wednesday (March 5), abruptly reversing Pyongyang's recent decision to reopen its frontier to tourism after five years of isolation.

North Korea has stopped tourists from visiting, just weeks after the first Western tourists entered the country for the first time in five years. North Korea sealed itself off at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020,

Tour group operators say the North Korean city of Rason has been closed to foreign visitors, following a recent trip there by 13 international tourists. View on euronews

North Korea has stopped tourists visiting weeks after reopening its borders to westerners for the first time in five years. Travellers from the West were allowed into the country in February after Pyongyang continued to lift restrictions introduced during the Covid pandemic.