President Trump effects travel ban to North Korea for American passport holders.

Citizens of the United States living in North Korea have been given the September 1 deadline to vacate the country and return to the USA as part of the travel ban implemented by Donald Trump. Furthermore, the US state department has declared all US passports invalid for travel to, in or through North Korea in the absence of special validation.

The Federal Register, the official journal of the US government, said "The Department of State has determined that the serious risk to United States nationals of arrest and long-term detention represents imminent danger to the physical safety of United States nationals traveling to and within the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.” 

Special exceptions may be granted to Red Cross representatives and others with "compelling humanitarian" reasons or a travel request that is "in the national interest”.
The department announced the ban last month following the death of US student Otto Warmbier. The 22-year-old, who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months, was returned to his family in a coma and died just a week later.
President Trump later blasted Kim Jong-un's regime's brutality and the US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said Mr. Warmbier's death reinforces North Korea's inhumanity.

The President said: “It’s a brutal regime and we’ll be able to handle it.”
He added: “Otto’s fate deepens my administration’s determination to prevent such tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not respect the rule of law or basic human decency.
“The United States once again condemns the brutality of the North Korean regime as we mourn its latest victim.”