Malaysia has banned its citizens to travel to the DPRK
MOSCOW, September 28 — RIA Novosti. Malaysian authorities have banned the country’s citizens travel to North Korea in connection with the escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, said the statement of the Malaysian foreign Ministry.
“All Malaysians are forbidden to travel to the DPRK until further notice,” reads a statement posted on the official website of the foreign Ministry of the country.
According to the foreign Ministry, “the decision was taken due to the escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula and developments related to missile tests”.
Measures will be revised as “soon the situation is normalized”.
The DPRK said on September 3 about the successful test of a hydrogen warhead, which is designed to equip Intercontinental ballistic missiles. The military of Japan and South Korea appreciated its capacity of 160 kilotons, which is about 10 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. It was the sixth nuclear test by Pyongyang. The week before the DPRK tested a ballistic missile that flew over Japan.
In connection with these events, the UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions against the DPRK, which will significantly limit the export and import capabilities of Pyongyang. Resolution 2375 set the most stringent UN sanctions regime in the twenty-first century.