This article was updated at 1900 KST on Thursday to include more comments from the British Council.

The British Council on Thursday confirmed to NK News that it has suspended its English-language teacher training program in North Korea.

The decision is a response to the UK government’s update of its foreign travel advice, a spokesperson said, which now warns against “all but essential travel” to the DPRK following the country’s sixth nuclear test on Sunday.

“The British Council suspended the English language teaching programme in Pyongyang when the travel advice from the UK Government changed,” a representative for the charity, who