Representatives from two Western travel agencies crossed into North Korea Thursday for the first time since the isolated regime closed its borders five years ago, raising hopes for new tour offerings to a border city.

North Korea is dismantling a facility at its Mount Kumgang resort used for hosting meetings between families separated after the Korean War, South Korea said on Thursday, in the latest sign of strained tensions between the two Koreas.

North Korea is demolishing a South Korea-built property that had been used to host reunions of families separated during the 1950-53 Korean War, the South’s government said Thursday, as it continues to eliminate symbols of engagement between the war-divided rivals.

North Korea is dismantling a facility at its Mount Kumgang resort used for hosting meetings between families separated after the Korean War, South Korea said on Thursday, in the latest sign of strained tensions between the two Koreas.

North Korea may be poised to move into production its intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US, the Pentagon’s commander of continental defenses told a Senate panel.

It’s bad enough that North Korea, an implacable enemy of the United States, has the nuclear bomb. To make matters worse, it has ICBMs that can reach the American mainland. But what few people except experts put much thought into is that all it takes is one well-placed explosion in space to disable the electronics