{"id":168825,"date":"2025-07-18T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=168825"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:45:32","slug":"north-korea-suspends-foreign-tourism-at-seaside-resort-weeks-after-opening-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/168825\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea suspends foreign tourism at seaside resort weeks after opening it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Korea has suspended the entry of foreign visitors to its new beach resort in Wonsan-Kalma, only weeks after opening the site to domestic tourists and a small group of Russians, Euronews<\/a> writes, referring to a statement from state-run tourism website DPR Korea Tour.<\/p>\n

However, the site is now “temporarily not receiving foreign tourists,” the statement read, without providing a reason or indicating when the ban might be lifted.<\/p>\n

The announcement follows Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent visit to the complex for talks with Kim and Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui.<\/p>\n

Lavrov had voiced optimism about boosting Russian tourism to the area, saying, “I am sure that Russian tourists will be increasingly eager to come here.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Korea has suspended the entry of foreign visitors to its new beach resort in Wonsan-Kalma, only weeks after opening the site to domestic tourists and a small group of Russians, Euronews writes, referring to a statement from state-run tourism website DPR Korea Tour. However, the site is now “temporarily not receiving foreign tourists,” the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":168817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}