North Korea Passport: Rare Insights explained by a passport expert

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) passport is one of the rarest travel documents a collector can get. Here are some facts, stories, and pictures.

We obtained a North Korean passport, a new version of 2000, from an informant in China. North Korean (DPRK) Passport
The informant reported that every North Korean traveling abroad must bring a passport, an international certificate of health for travelers, and an international certificate of HIV antibody control. The previous version of the North Korean passport was vinyl with red color.

Kim Tae San, a former director of Czech-N. Korean Shoe Joint-Stock Company defected from North Korea said that the North Korean passport’s quality was so bad due to lack of foreign currency and technology that every time I entered another country, immigration officials checked my passport as if I possessed a fake one.

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