North Korea
Sri Lankan passportEdit check
Visa, stay set by the visa
Before you travel: you need a visa from an embassy or consulate.
How long you may stay is set by your visa.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Source & evidence Read the original words
Official wording
외국인은 우리 나라 외무성, 출입국사업기관 또는 다른 나라에 주재하는 우리 나라 외교 및 령사대표기관을 통하여 사증을 발급받고 입출국하여야 한다. … 우리 나라와 해당 나라사이에 무사증제를 실시할데 대한 협약이 있을 경우에는 려권 또는 그를 대신하는 증명서를 가지고 사증없이 입출국할수 있다.
Aevamo’s reading
Article 19 of the DPRK Entry and Exit Law imposes the obligation itself: it states that foreigners must obtain a visa through DPRK organs before entering or leaving, and it defines the only visa-free routes. This is the statute that creates the requirement, not a summary or description of it.
Article 19(1) obliges every foreigner to obtain a visa (사증) in advance through DPRK diplomatic, consular or entry-exit organs; Article 19(2) confines the only visa-free route to citizens of states with a bilateral visa-waiver agreement, and no ordinary-passport holder of any roster issuer is covered by such an agreement (the one documented agreement, with China, covers only diplomatic, service and official-ordinary passports). Therefore every ordinary travel document needs advance authorisation.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
2017-06-21 (last amendment recorded in the document header: Supreme People's Assembly Standing Committee Decree No. 1774); NK Tech Lab reproduction uploaded 2025-07.
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.