North Korea has banned the children of foreign diplomats and humanitarian workers from visiting restaurants and shops, sources confirmed to NK News on Friday.

The ruling is the latest in a series of increasingly severe restrictions on the shrinking ex-pat community in Pyongyang, apparently implemented to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Few diplomats remain in North Korea with their children because the foreign community has shrunk so much over the last year. But there are still several husband-and-wife couples with children working at the Russian Embassy, the largest in Pyongyang, an informed source told NK