My only question on the new North Korea travel ban is this: Why did it take so long to put one in place?
If North Korea has been this incredibly tyrannical nation since, oh I don’t know, 60+ years why were people allowed to travel there for so long!
“Yeah honey, screw Disney and Outer Banks, let’s go check out the beaches in North Korea” said no person ever.
US to bar Americans from traveling to North Korea – By Conor Finnegan / July 21 2017
Americans will soon be barred from traveling to North Korea, according to two tour groups who have operated in the country and one U.S. administration official.
Koryo Tours and Young Pioneer Tours – the group that organized Otto Warmbier’s trip – both said that they were contacted and told the U.S. government will invalidate the passport of any U.S. citizen traveling starting 30 days after July 27. Koryo Tours general manager Simon Cockerell told ABC News that the Swedish embassy in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the U.S.’s diplomatic liaison in the country, informed his company of the decision.
A Trump administration official later confirmed the change.
It’s unclear what this will mean for the handful of U.S. citizens living in North Korea, including the 40 or so Americans teaching at North Korea’s only private university, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. Two Americans still held by North Korea were teaching there.
In past years, somewhere between 800 and 1250 Americans visit North Korea each year, although that number has declined sharply this year following the recent death of Warmbier.
Continue to abcnews.go.com article: http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-bar-americans-traveling-north-korea/story?id=48768015
