Can Americans Travel to North Korea?

Published August 5, 2009

Text by Alyson Sheppard

With this morning's safe return of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling (sister of former National Geographic Explorer host Lisa Ling) from a prison sentence in North Korea for entering the country illegally, ADVENTURE wants to know: Can Americans get in legally? And why would they want to?

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Photograph by Alan Hay

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