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.

In 2019, James Scullin and Nicole Reed traveled to North Korea from their native Australia to document a part of the country that most of the Western world has never seen. North Korea is regarded as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A huge LED billboard has been installed on Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel. Diplomats and foreigners in Pyongyang shared photographs and videos showing the billboard illuminated with the North Korean flag ...

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.