The Wonsan-Kalma beach resort is North Korea's biggest tourist site. KCNA said North Korea will begin service for domestic tourists next Tuesday. It didn't say when North Korea will start receiving foreign tourists, but Russian officials said later Thursday that the first Russian tour to the site will happen in July.

North Korea will open a tourist site on its east coast next week that it calls a prelude to a new era in its tourism industry, though there is no word on when the country will fully reopen to foreign