Exclusive - Pyongyang university to start fall classes without American staff after travel ban

FILE PHOTO - Cameramen film from under North Korean flag during the parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang October 10, 2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

SEOUL (Reuters) - Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), North Korea's only western-funded university, will start the fall semester without its dozens of American staff after failing to secure exemptions to a U.S. travel ban that starts on Friday.

PUST - home to the largest concentration of foreigners in the reclusive state - plans to revise courses and teaching schedules but its largely English-based curriculum will be heavily impacted, two sources familiar with PUST's operations said.