NORTH KOREA LOSES AMERICAN TOURISTS (US TRAVEL BAN FINALLY ENFORCED)

NORTH KOREA LOSES AMERICAN TOURISTS (US TRAVEL BAN FINALLY ENFORCED):

OTTO WARMBIER'S MURDER RE-AWAKENED WORLD TO KIM JONG UN'S BRUTAL REGIME (STARVING CHILDREN & PRISON CAMPS).

"YOUNG PIONEERS TOURS" NO LONGER BE ABLE TO RECRUIT ADVENTOUROUS AMERICANS TO VISIT N. KOREA.


Sources: AFP, Fox News, The Guardian, Youtube


**** US to ban citizens from travel to North Korea, tour operators say


Two agencies including Young Pioneer Tours, which took Otto Warmbier to North Korea, say ban will be announced on 27 July.

Two travel companies that operate tours to North Korea have said the US government will soon ban its citizens from travelling to the North.

It follows the death of Otto Warmbier, a US student who was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour while visiting North Korea. He was released in June in a coma and died in hospital in Cincinnati days after being medically evacuated.

Koryo Tours said on Friday the ban would be announced on 27 July and would go into effect 30 days later. It did not say how long the ban would last.

Another tour operator, Young Pioneer Tours, said in a tweet that it had also been informed of the ban, citing the same date.

Young Pioneer Tours was the agency that took Warmbier to North Korea.

His parents, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, said his death was a result of “the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans”.

Warmbier was arrested at Pyongyang airport in January 2016 for allegedly taking a propaganda poster from his hotel room, where he had been staying as part of an organised tour.

The University of Virginia student wept at his sentencing, saying: “I have made the worst mistake of my life.” The trial reportedly lasted less than an hour.