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IANS | 22 Jul, 2017
The US will soon ban its citizens from visiting North Korea, following
the death of American student Otto Warmbier, officials said.
The
ban will likely be announced on July 27 and will come into force thirty
days later, Nicholas Banner, co-founder of Beijing-based Koryo Tours
said on Friday on the basis of information they received from the
Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, which collaborates with the US regarding
consular matters in North Korea.
Confirming the news, Xi'an based
Young Pioneer Tours said in a statement on its website that following
the ban, the US government will revoke the passports of Americans, who
visit North Korea, Efe news reported.
During his visit, Warmbier
was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for allegedly
stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel.
The 22-year-old American was freed by Pyongyang in June in a state of coma and died six days later.
Apart
from Warmbier, three other Americans were arrested between 2013 and
2014 and repatriated after several months in captivity.
In 2008, a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a North Korean soldier after allegedly entering a restricted military zone.
Many
travel agencies were expecting the ban, which primarily seeks to
prevent the arrest of more Americans by the North Korean regime as
bargaining tools.
However, the measure might not be as much of a
deterrant since North Korea issues visas separately instead of stamping
them on passports.
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