Reports that North Korea has slapped travel restrictions on Chinese visitors are misleading Experts and travel agencies told us entry to North Korea is banned for all, not just Chinese nationals, while posts circulating the claim share old travel advice
Screenshot of the travel advice published by the Chinese foreign ministry on January 30, 2020
North Korea watchers said that Pyongyang's ban on Chinese travellers -- as well as arrivals from all other countries -- was still in force in January 2023. , vice director at the Kyungnam University Institute for Far Eastern Studies in South Korea confirmed that North Korea closed its borders to international arrivals, including its own citizens living abroad, from January 2020.:"All air and train routes into and out of North Korea are temporarily suspended as of 31 January 2020.
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