North Korean diplomats are retreating from meetings with regular foreign contacts at embassies in multiple Western countries, several informed sources told NK News on Tuesday.

In addition, scheduled visits by several Western delegations to North Korea have been canceled at the eleventh hour, while the DPRK presence at a forthcoming UN-organized meeting in Stockholm has now been retracted.

“Ever since the Hanoi summit North Korea has canceled numerous, normally routine, visits by all kinds of organizations and individuals,” said one informed source of the trend.

Furthermore, “the DPRK canceled numerous inward visits after the summit, many with comically flimsy excuses,”