The United States will bar Americans from travelling to North Korea in the coming weeks, two travel agencies said 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 … Read more
North Korea says it has detained a US citizen on suspicion of “hostile acts” against the state. Kim Hak-song worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) and was held on 6 May, state-run news agency KCNA said. Three other US citizens are currently held in North Korea, including Kim Sang-duck, who had … Read more
A foreign-funded university in North Korea has confirmed the arrest of a US citizen who was lecturing there — the third American held in the country amid growing tensions between Pyongyang and Washington. Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, was arrested at the capital’s airport Saturday as he was about to leave after teaching at the … Read more
The US State Department on Tuesday urged North Korea to pardon an American student who was sentenced last year to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a political banner from a hotel. The call for the “immediate release” of Otto Warmbier, who is in his 20s, came as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was … Read more