Wired

All Aboard Air Koryo, North Korea’s Fleet of Ancient Soviet Planes

North Korea possesses the technological wherewithal to develop a nuclear bomb, launch devastating cyberattacks, and even hurl rockets toward its enemies. Yet it can't manage to put together an airline ...
Los Angeles Times

North Korea on a bun: What the legendary Koryo Burger tells us about the isolated nation, and ourselves

Reporting from PYONGYANG, North Korea — On Air Koryo, North Korea’s state airline, flight attendants are known to serve one thing, and one thing only: a burger as mysterious as the secretive country ...
Yahoo

Air Koryo Pump Fakes on Commercial Flight To Russia And China

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Korea’s national airline, Air Koryo, almost took a significant step back into the international arena. The airline was going ...
D Magazine

The Flame Still Burns at the Reborn Koryo Korean BBQ

Updating a landmark is a delicate task. You’ve got to preserve the tradition but offer something new. You want to please longtime fans but welcome first-timers. A lot can go wrong. Things were ...
Business Insider

The World's 'Worst Airline' In North Korea Actually Isn't Half Bad

Air Koryo, the state-owned airline run by the North Korean government, has regularly been called the "world's worst airline." The airline is the only one in the world to have a "one star" rating on ...
Yahoo

North Korea signals reopening with first passenger flight in three years

BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) -An Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang landed in Beijing early on Tuesday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns began in 2020, as North Korea cracks open its ...
Los Angeles Times

North Korea’s Air Koryo named the worst airline in the world again

For the fourth year in a row, North Korea’s Air Koryo has claimed the dubious honor of being ranked the worst carrier in the world. But Air Koryo may not be that bad, according to online reviews. The ...
Couriermail

This is the Koryo Burger, the only food item served on North Korea’s state airline

The Koryo Burger is always served stone cold — straight from the fridge — on a paper doily with an unidenfitied slice of processed meat in the middle. The bun is stale, there’s a slice of processed ...
scmp.com

Air Koryo plane lands in China, first commercial North Korean flight in 3 years

A passenger flight from Pyongyang landed in Beijing on Tuesday morning, the first known commercial flight from North Korea since it closed its borders in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Flight ...
Daily Mail

North Korea’s Air Koryo is ‘the world's worst airline for four years running'

It is known for its lax approach to seating, odd choice of in-flight entertainment and food which is all but inedible. But this week Air Koryo, North Korea’s national airline, added another claim to ...
The Korea Times

Learning something new about 'Koryo Saram'

Chuseok is a time to reconnect. And so, I did. I’ve reached out to a few academics to expand my research on international affairs and some interesting phenomena currently taking place in Central Asia.