What’s it like to be banned from both halves of the Korean peninsula?

Although most will never find out, Washington’s recent ban on U.S. tourism to North Korea – combined with South Korea’s 1948-dated National Security Act – mean that as of September 1, one Korean-American is to be banned from both.

Born in South Korea but now living in California as a U.S. citizen, Shin Eun-mi, who has been visiting North Korea since 2011, was controversially deported from the South in 2015 for being too positive about her trips North during presentations she made throughout the country at the