{"id":45006,"date":"2017-09-28T05:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45006"},"modified":"2017-09-28T05:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T05:02:35","slug":"malaysians-banned-from-going-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/malaysians-banned-from-going-to-north-korea.html","title":{"rendered":"Malaysians banned from going to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Malaysians banned from going to North Korea<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Malaysians banned from going to North Korea:- The Foreign Ministry has announced a ban on Malaysians travelling to North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hereby informs the public that all Malaysians are banned from travelling to the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (North Korea) until further notice,&#8221; the Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The decision was made in view of the &#8220;escalation of tensions&#8221; in the Korean Peninsula and related developments arising from the country&#8217;s missile tests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;The travel ban will be reviewed once the situation has returned to normal,&#8221; Wisma Putra said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes dominated the gathering of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Fears of a clash between the United States and North Korea were heightened after US bombers flew off the coast of North Korea on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Pyongyang has claimed that the US had declared war against them, and threatened to shoot down US bombers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">For further inquiry, Malaysians may contact the Foreign Affairs Ministry at +603-80008000 (during office hours) or +603-88874570 (after office hours).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2017\/09\/28\/malaysia-travel-ban-north-korea\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/malaysians-banned-from-going-to-north-korea.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysians banned from going to North Korea Malaysians banned from going to North Korea:- The Foreign Ministry has announced a ban on Malaysians travelling to North Korea. &#8220;The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hereby informs the public that all Malaysians are banned from travelling to the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5470],"tags":[65840],"class_list":["post-45006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-malaysians-banned-from-going-to-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}