Two travel agencies on Friday said that the United States will ban Americans from travelling to North Korea following the imprisonment of Otto Warmbier  by the  Stalinist regime which led to his death a month ago.

China-based Young Pioneer Tours, which had taken Warmbier to North Korea, and Koryo Tours said the ban will come into force on July 27 — the anniversary of the end of the Korean War — with a 30-day grace period.

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