Public disapproval has caused Switzerland to stop allowing North Korean military officers to receive funding to attend a Geneva training center, a Swiss news source has reported.

Swissinfo.ch, the international arm of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, quoted a spokesperson from the defense ministry as stating that the eight personnel from the Korean People’s Army may still attend the training, but will no longer receive public money to do so. An investigation from the German-language Swiss paper Blick revealed last year that the North Koreans were taking part in the training, receiving 160,000 francs (about $174,000) in public funding since