BEIJING – North Korea has halted international trips to a city near its border with China, travel agencies said on March 5, abruptly reversing Pyongyang’s recent decision to reopen its frontier to tourism after five years of isolation.
North Korea shut its borders in early 2020 to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and later bolstered defences along its northern boundary to deter its own nationals from re-entering the country illegally from China.
Several Western tour operators said in February that they had sent small numbers of foreign travellers into the north-eastern city of Rason after receiving permission from North Korean interlocutors.
But some of the companies said on March 5 that those trips had been suspended for unclear reasons.
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