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MISSILE ACTIVITIES: Malaysia bans its citizens from travelling to North Korea

Due to its increasing ballistic missile activities, the government of Malaysia has banned its citizens from travelling to North Korea led by defiant and headstrong leader, Kim Jong Un.

The government of Malaysia made the development known after its foreign ministry announced the ban in a statement Thursday and said that it would last until further notice.

The statement cited North Korea’s missile tests and related developments. North Korea has been targeted in recent months by stricter sanctions and increasing diplomatic pressure, with Kuwait and Mexico expelling its envoys in recent weeks.

Read also: Day after dismissing war accusations by N’Korea, US says it is ready to pound Pyongyang

Yesterday, President Donald Trump declared that the US is ready to take military option against Pyongyang.

Trump made the comments while reacting to reports of a North Korean threat to shoot down American bombers, after what the country through it foreign minister called a declaration of war.

He declared that the US is “totally prepared” to take a military option against North Korea, saying “it will be devastating” to Pyongyang.

The increasingly heated rhetoric between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is raising fears of a risk of a miscalculation by one side or the other that could have massive repercussions.

 

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