BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities in the northeastern city of Dandong have told tour agencies to halt overland tourism into North Korea, local travel agents said on Wednesday, as Pyongyang whips up war rhetoric following weeks of tension on the Korean peninsula.
"All (tourist) travel to North Korea has been stopped from today, and I've no idea when it will restart," a travel agent in Dandong told Reuters by telephone.
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