An estimated 5,000 Westerners – including about 800 Americans – visit North Korea every year through tourism agencies. “What I saw all over North Korea was Koreans,” James said. “Casually touring North Korea is akin to hiking at Auschwitz under the Nazis,” Kim wrote. “I think people need to go to North Korea so that people there can have firsthand contact with Westerners,” he said. “Unlike apartheid South Africa, North Korea is already cut off from the rest of the world, so nothing is going to change by isolating it further.

Source: The Guardian July 22, 2017 01:18 UTC