Isolated North Korea a visitor draw, but sometimes literally a tourist trap


  • World
  • Thursday, 12 Jun 2014

SEOUL (Reuters) - "Taking you to places where your mother would rather you stayed away from." That's how one Western travel agency advertises its tours to North Korea.

The U.S. government doesn't want you to go there either. Three of its citizens have been detained in the last eight months while on tourist trips to North Korea, including Jeffrey Fowle, a visitor from Miamisburg, Ohio, who was arrested in May.

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