Chef Hyun Kim is one of five Hawaii chefs up for this year’s James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef in the Northwest and Pacific region.

SEOUL – When Mr Rowan Beard stepped into North Korea recently, his very presence sparked a buzz. “At first, the North Korean immigration official was like, ‘You Russian?’ and I replied ...

Justin Martell recently became the first known American to step foot inside the secretive nation since the onset of the ...

The group entered the country through China on their trip to Rason in the far northeast — more than 500 miles from the ...

While some of the visitors are specifically interested in North Korean culture, history, and society, Beard said that others simply wanted to tick off another country. "Some of the people we're ...

Beard, who has led tours to North Korea for more than a decade, says the upcoming trips mark a significant step after years of perhaps the most extreme isolation that already-isolated North ...

But tourism to North Korea is contentious, especially as travellers have been allowed back before aid workers and most ...

Among the first is Australian tour manager Rowan Beard. He told the Straits Times that his arrival at border control was met with surprise and excitement. “At first, the North Korean immigration ...

The first Western tourists are trickling back into the totalitarian Kim Jong Un regime—and splurging on propaganda ...