President Trump and his administration will ban U.S. travel to North Korea, sources told The Associated Press (AP) this week.
The move will take place 30 days after the State Department publishes it in the Federal Register, the AP reported, though there is no set date for that posting as of now.
WARMBIER
The move comes only a month after the tragic death of 22-year-old American student Otto Warmbier. Warmbier, the AP reminds readers, was sentenced to “15 years of hard labor” after allegedly “stealing a propaganda poster while on a tour of the country.”
In this case, the administration had been considering the step since Warmbier died after being medically evacuated in a coma from North Korea last month. Warmbier suffered a severe neurological injury from an unknown cause while in custody. Relatives said they were told the 22-year-old University of Virginia student had been in a coma since shortly after he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea in March 2016.
The Trump administration succeeded where the Obama administration had not in bringing Warmbier home in June, but the student was delivered to the U.S. in a coma and died shortly after.
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