1. Short title This Act may be cited as the North Korea Travel Control Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In recent years, there has been an increase in tourist travel to North Korea by citizens of Western countries, including the United States. (2) In the last ten years, at least 17 United States citizens have been detained in North Korea, and at least four citizens remain imprisoned in North Korea as of May 2017. These Americans traveled to North Korea for a variety of reasons, including tourism travel, lured in part by its secrecy and decades of closure to the West. (3) The Government of North Korea has repeatedly detained United States citizens to be used as bargaining chips in negotiations over a variety of issues, including North Korea’s illegal nuclear weapons program and ballistic missile development, and as a way to extract diplomatic concessions. (4) The United States has undertaken great diplomatic efforts to secure the release of Americans detained in North Korea, including through visits by former United States Presidents and cabinet level officials. (5) The Department of State strongly discourages travel to North Korea, stating in a travel warning that United States citizens are at serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea’s system of law enforcement . (6) Travel to North Korea is a source of foreign capital for the most self-isolated nation in the world, helping to perpetuate an authoritarian regime which brutally represses dissent. 3. Regulations prohibiting travel-related transactions to, from, and within North Korea by persons subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (a) In general Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue regulations prohibiting transactions related to travel to, from, or within North Korea by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States unless authorized either by a general license issued by the Secretary of the Treasury or on a case-by-case basis