Justin Martell recently became the first known American to step foot inside the secretive nation since the onset of the pandemic more than five years ago.

By contributing a six-figure sum to the country’s Sustainable Island State Contribution fund, he said he secured a second passport, which legally allowed him to return to North Korea without ...

“It made me, I think, the last American tourist on a US passport to leave the DPRK.” Despite the ban, Martell remained committed to returning to North Korea. “I didn’t want to stop coming ...

The case of two North Korean fishermen, who murdered 16 compatriots before they sought asylum, has become a political minefield in the South. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul In 2019 ...