Would visiting North Korea as a tourist cause problems travelling anywhere else?

11/2/2013 5:18:18 PM

There is a lot of misinformation out there on DPRK (North Korea) travel. It is not difficult at all to obtain a tourist visa through one of the several tour companies that operate tours in the DPRK. I am COO of Uri Tours Inc., the only direct provider of North Korea Travel based in the US (there are several resellers). In over 6 years of operation, we have not had a tourist visa rejected.

When returning to the US from North Korea (I’ve been 5 times, and our CEO has been close to 100 times), we and our tourists have always clearly write DPRK on the re-entry card and have never been given any hassle.

As mentioned by others here, North Korea visas are stand-alone documents and you will not get a stamp in your passport. None of our customers or tour guides from other countries have reported any serious problems on reentry to their home countries.

12/5/2013 8:52:33 AM

Most North Korean visas are issued on separate pieces of paper, not in your passport, and are thus not a problem. Likewise, on entry and exit, they will stamp the paper and not your passport.

Even if you do get a visa in your passport, as far as I’m aware no country has a policy of actually refusing entry to people who have visited North Korea; certainly neither Japan nor South Korea do, even though they’re technically at war. It certainly is the kind of thing you may expect to get a question or two over though.

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