All American citizens living in
the Asian country of North Korea have been ordered to leave by September 1.
This is as a ban prohibiting them
from traveling to the country has since proven difficult to handle.
There is, however, exemption for
approved humanitarian travel and journalists in some circumstances.
The ban which was announced by US
Secretary of States, Rex Tillerson, is to remain in effect for one year, unless
it is revoked.
The travel ban was first
announced last month following the death of American student Otto Warmbier.
The 22-year-old Warmbier died in
June after being held for more than a year on charges of stealing a propaganda
poster from a North Korean hotel.
Tillerson’s statement reads, “The
Department of State has determined that the serious risk to United States
nationals of arrest and long-term detention represents imminent danger to the
physical safety of United States nationals traveling to and within the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
“All United States passports are
declared invalid for travel to, in, or through the DPRK unless specially
validated for such travel.
After Warnbier’s death, US
President Donald Trump had said that he was determined to “prevent such
tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not
respect the rule of law or basic human decency.”
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