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 ...

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.

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 ...

The following is an excerpt of a book review on Asia Society Australia Programs Director James Scullin's book, Hotels of Pyongyang. The article written by Stephen Clark was originally published in the ...

Plumes of black smoke were visible from some of the upper floors of the 43-storey hotel, said the witness, who declined to be identified. The Koryo Hotel is a 143-metre (469-feet) twin-tower structure ...

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.