Americans barred from travelling to North Korea
Tour operators are notified of the ban by the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, acting on the US’s behalf
Beijing — The US will bar Americans from travelling to North Korea in the coming weeks, two travel agencies said on Friday, a month after a US tourist, student Otto Warmbier, died following his imprisonment by Pyongyang. China-based Young Pioneer Tours, which had taken Warmbier to North Korea, and Koryo Tours said the ban will come into force on July 27 — the anniversary of the end of the Korean War — with a 30-day grace period. "We have just been informed that the US government will no longer be allowing US citizens to travel to the DPRK," Young Pioneer Tours said on its website. "After the 30-day grace period, any US national that travels to North Korea will have their passport invalidated by their government," it said. The company did not say who had notified it of the ban, which came after its earlier announcement that it would no longer take Americans to North Korea. Koryo Tours GM Simon Cockerell told AFP that his company was notified by the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, which...
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