Americans were forbidden to visit North Korea

Americans were forbidden to visit North Korea

US citizens can forbid to go to North Korea. Such a move considering the administration of President after the death of 23-year-old student of Otto Warmbier.

Warmbier died on Monday, a week after arriving from North Korea. The deceased returned home in a coma with extensive brain damage — before he and a half years was a prisoner of the regime of Kim Jong-UN.

His fate is not repeated with other Americans, the authorities plan to introduce a taboo on travel to North Korea. U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson I considered the possibility, from March-month, when Pyongyang had detained an American teacher Tony Kim.

What happened to Wambera tragedy was the last straw in the patience of the American authorities. Leading lawmakers from the house of representatives and the Senate agree with the White house: a policy regarding the travel of American citizens in an enemy state should be reviewed.

«When visiting North Korea, tourists from the United States to help Fund one of the most brutal and oppressive regimes in the world,» said Tuesday the house of representatives member Adam Schiff.

He agreed Bob Corker, Chairman of the Senate Committee on foreign Affairs. «Such tourism is jeopardizing our national security,» — said the politician.

A member of the house of representatives, Steny Hoyer also endorsed the travel ban «a country that violates all the norms».

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