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North Korean foreign ministry condemns U.S. tourism ban as “vile measure”

DPRK will "leave our door wide open to any U.S. citizen who would like to visit," FM says

Update: This article was amended at 1610 KST to conform with KCNA’s official translation

North Korea’s foreign ministry has condemned a recent U.S. State Department travel ban as a plot intended to restrict personal exchanges, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday.

“The U.S. administration took this childish measure of issuing a travel ban to our country while finding fault with the exercise of legitimate right of the sovereign state,” KCNA reported, quoting a spokesperson for the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“This is an act to impugn the dignified prestige of the DPRK and