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 ...