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Citizens of South Korea seeking to visit North Korea cannot use South Korean passports to travel to North Korea. They must instead submit a North/South Korea visitation verification certificate as well as a departure card to the North Korean immigration officer at the port of entry and go through immigration inspection in North Korea.
As of January 2013, foreigners can buy SIM cards at Pyongyang airport, [22] providing access to international calling. [23]As North Koreans are severely punished for making (or receiving) international calls, watching any foreign programs, videos, etc., visitors put local people at very high risk by merely showing them, let alone lending them, their own mobile phones, iPods and other similar ...
U.S. secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, authorized a ban on American travel to North Korea that went into effect in August 2017, following the death of Otto Warmbier, a US student who was detained in North Korea and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. [citation needed] — South Korea
North Korea is opening partially to tourism for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. He said visiting can be full of pitfalls, like mentioning religion or South Korea.
The Biden administration is extending for another year a ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea, the State Department said Tuesday. The latest extension comes as tensions with ...
The U.S. government said last month that it would bar Americans from traveling to the country due to the risk of 'long-term detention' there. US bans travel to North Korea beginning September 1 ...
Japan has banned North Korean citizens from entering as part of sanctions against North Korea imposed by the Government of Japan, since February 2016. Sanctions against North Korea [16] Palestine Georgia [17] Madagascar: Madagascar does not recognize passports issued by the Palestinian Authority. [18] Syria
A high-level Chinese delegation will travel to North Korea this week, the North's official KCNA news agency reported on Monday, in the first acknowledged visit of its kind since Pyongyang shut its ...