---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9227"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9227"
heading: "Travel recommendations for United States citizens to North Korea"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9227"
units:
  - "Chapter 99 — North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement"
  - "Subchapter II — Sanctions Against North Korean Proliferation, Human Rights Abuses, and Illicit Activities"
---

# §9227. Travel recommendations for United States citizens to North Korea


The Secretary of State shall expand the scope and frequency of issuance of travel warnings for all [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) citizens to [North Korea](/usc/22/9202.md?p=11). The expanded travel warnings, which should be issued or updated not less frequently than every 90 days, should include—

- (1) publicly released or credible open source information regarding the detention of [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) citizens by North Korean authorities, including available information on circumstances of arrest and detention, duration, legal proceedings, and conditions under which a [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) citizen has been, or continues to be, detained by North Korean authorities, including present-day cases and cases occurring during the 10-year period ending on February 18, 2016;
- (2) publicly released or credible open source information on the past and present detention and abduction or alleged abduction of citizens of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), [South Korea](/usc/22/9202.md?p=15), or Japan by North Korean authorities;
- (3) unclassified information about the nature of the North Korean regime, as described in congressionally mandated reports and [annual reports](/usc/22/6402.md?p=2) issued by the Department of State and the United Nations, including information about [North Korea](/usc/22/9202.md?p=11)’s weapons of mass destruction [programs](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6), illicit activities, international sanctions violations, and human rights situation; and
- (4) any other information that the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) deems useful to provide [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) citizens with a comprehensive picture of the nature of the North Korean regime.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–122, title II, § 207, Feb. 18, 2016, 130 Stat. 108.)