North Korea Bars Foreign Tourists Amid Virus Threat, Groups Say
Tourists from China pose for photos on Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang.
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North Korea has temporarily closed its borders to foreign tourists, two major operators of tours to the isolated country said, in an apparent effort to seal itself off from a new virus causing global health worries.
The Beijing-based Koryo Tours said Wednesday that it received word from its partners in North Korea that the country’s borders were closed. Young Pioneer Tours, another group that organizes trips to North Korea, had earlier said on Twitter that the temporary closures took effect Wednesday.