“We have been evaluating whether we should put some type of travel visa restriction to North Korea,” he told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Hours before Tillerson gave his testimony, a medivac flight touched down in Cincinnati carrying Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old student who had been in detention in North Korea since the first days of January of last year. As USA Today correctly noted Friday, “His situation represents the worst outcome for any American whom North Korea has detained.”The University of Virginia student should never should have gone to the DPRK, as North Korea calls itself, in the first place. Yet the U.S. has not prohibited Americans from traveling to North Korea. Yet Warmbier’s case has the potential, because of the obvious abuse, to galvanize public opinion against the horrific regime.

Source: Forbes June 18, 2017 21:45 UTC