‘Afraid’ Christiane Amanpour Says Traveling to US Feels Like Visiting North Korea

Zachary Leeman Jun 5th, 2025, 11:05 am

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour compared traveling to the United States under President Donald Trump as a foreigner to visiting North Korea, revealing some of the precautions she took during a recent trip.

On her podcast on Wednesday, Amanpour, a British-born journalist, revealed in a discussion with her ex-husband James Rubin that she spoke to CNN and carried a “burner phone” when traveling to the United States last month to speak at Harvard.

“I must say I was afraid. 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, Jami

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