# North Korea travel advisory: Level 4: Do Not Travel

> Official levels only. Not travel or medical advice. The advisory may assign different levels to regions inside the destination.

- State Department level: Level 4: Do Not Travel
- Advisory date: 2025-04-29
- Source note: Reissued after periodic review with minor edits.
- CDC travel health notices naming this destination: 0
- Observed level changes recorded by CiteFacts: 0
- Retrieved: 2026-09-10T23:03:54+00:00

## State Department summary

Do not travel to North Korea due to the continuing serious risk of arrest, long-term detention, and the threat of wrongful detention of U.S. nationals. Do not travel to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for any reason.

## CDC travel health notices

- No current CDC travel health notice names this destination in its title. This is not a statement that no health risk exists.

## Observed level history

- 2026-09-10T23:02:54+00:00 — Level 4: Do Not Travel — baseline

## Sources and formats

- [Official State Department advisory](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/north-korea-travel-advisory.html)
- [State Department advisory feed](https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml)
- [CDC travel notice feed](https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/rss/notices.xml)
- [Canonical HTML](https://citefacts.com/travel/north-korea)
- [JSON record](https://citefacts.com/travel/north-korea.json)