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Dagyum Ji
Dagyum Ji was a senior NK News correspondent based in Seoul. She previously worked for Reuters TV.
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News 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 © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |