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North Korea lifts Ebola travel restrictions

March 6, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Talmadge Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — North Korea has lifted severe restrictions on foreign travel it imposed last year to keep the Ebola virus from crossing its borders. The already isolated country virtually closed its borders to foreigners last October, halting all non-essential visas and requiring those few foreigners allowed in to undergo […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Air Koryo, Andrea Lee, Asia, Associated Press, China, Ebola-hit Guinea, Hong Sun Gwang, Liberia, NGO, North Korean, Pyongyang Friendship Hospital, Sierra Leone, State Hygiene Inspection Authority, Uri Tours, Vol 34 No 11 | March 7 - March 13

US man in North Korea given 6 years of hard labor

September 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced a 24-year-old American man to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally to commit espionage.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Aijalon Gomes, DPRK, Democratic People, Eddie Yong Su Jun, Following Sunday, Former President Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Fowle, Jen Psaki, Jimmy Carter, Korean American, Matthew Miller, New Jersey-based, North Korean, Robert King, Russian President Vladimir Putin, State Department, Uri Tours, Vol 33 No 39 | September 20 - September 26

Despite tensions, N. Korea lets tourists, athletes through borders

April 20, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eric Talmadge The Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Despite North Korea’s warnings that the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula is so high it cannot guarantee the safety of foreign residents, it literally trotted out athletes from around the world on Sunday, April 14 — suggesting its concerns of an imminent […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Air Koryo, Andrea Lee, Beijing, Chang Chia-che, China, Fumio Kishida, Kim Il Sung Stadium, Kim Jong-un, North Korean, PYONGYANG, Sandra Cook, South Korea, United States, Uri Tours, Vol 32 No 17 | April 20 - April 26, japan

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