U.S. to Bar Americans From Traveling to North Korea
By DAVID E. SANGERJULY 21, 2017
ASPEN, Colo. — The Trump administration said on Friday
that it would bar Americans from traveling to North Korea, a month after the death of Otto F. Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student from Ohio who was arrested while trying to leave the country and returned to his parents, more than a year later, in a coma.
Mr. Pompeo was pressed several times in an interview here on Thursday evening conducted by Bret Stephens, a New York Times columnist, about what he meant by
that phrase, and whether it was code for regime change.
Evans said that It’s important to stop the flow of cash and prospective hostages into North Korea, especially after the recent death of Otto Warmbier,
Nor do we desire to threaten the North Korean people or destabilize the Asia Pacific region." While the State Department has long warned Americans about the risks of detention in the North — leading to high-drama cases in which the United States has sent former presidents, intelligence chiefs
and special envoys to win the release of detainees — it has not previously banned all travel.
Mr. Pompeo told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday night
that President Trump had ordered him to come up with options that would "separate the capacity" to build and deliver nuclear weapons from "someone who might well have intent," a clear reference to Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader.
Mr. Pompeo would not utter that phrase, saying instead, "As for the regime, I am hopeful
we will find a way to separate that regime from these" missiles and nuclear weapons.
