On Wednesday, far-left CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour took to her podcast “The Ex Files” to spin a ridiculous story about her preparations for travel to the United States. The melodramatic Amanpour suggested it was akin to traveling to North Korea.
Amanpour made the comments during a discussion with Jamie Rubin, a former State Department official and Amanpour’s ex-husband.
She pointed to a speech she gave at Harvard Kennedy School in May. She said, that although she was a prominent media figure, she was fearful she would be stopped by border security.
“I must say I was afraid,” Amanpour shared.
“I’m a foreigner. I don’t have a green card. I’m not an American citizen. I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea.”
“I took a burner phone Jamie. Imagine that. I didn’t take a single…not my mobile phone, not my iPad, nothing, and I had nothing on the burner phone except a few numbers.”
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Despite Amanpour’s theatrics, she was welcomed into the country and the immigration officer she interacted with “could not have been nicer.”
“So, huge sigh of relief I breathed, but wow, can you imagine if I’m afraid, what do others think?”
Despite Amanpour’s fearmongering, travel to North Korea is far different than the experience Amanpour described when coming to the US.
Independent travel is not allowed, and travelers must be accompanied by government-assigned guides at all times, who control your itinerary and monitor your activities.
Journalists like Amanpour are highly restricted in other ways. Photography is heavily restricted, with only approved sites allowed to be captured. Anything deemed “sensitive” (ie. poverty, military, unsanctioned buildings) is completely off-limits and places you in legal jeopardy.
Bringing foreign media, religious materials, or anything critical of the regime is also prohibited.
Scared about your phone, Christine? Devices like phones may be inspected at borders.
Even if a journalist traveling to North Korea follows all of the strict rules, they still risk arbitrary arrest due to the regime’s unpredictable enforcement.
British travel advisory to the U.S:
British travel advisory to North Korea.
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