North Korea reopens to tourism, but U.S. citizens still can't travel there
The U.S. State Department has banned the use of U.S. passports for travel to, within, or through North Korea, citing “a continued and serious risk of arrest and long-term detention of U.S. nationals.”
The ban was imposed in 2017 following the death of Otto Warmbier, an American who returned to the United States in a coma after spending more than a year in a North Korean prison. It has been updated regularly since then, with the State Department’s most recent Level 4 recommendation reissued last summer.
