The government is wary of allowing South Korean visits to North Korea’s Mount Geumgang after a tourist shooting at the resort.

According to a Unification Ministry spokesman, 66 South Korean people requested government permission to visit the resort Monday. But only about two-thirds of them were allowed to enter North Korean soil.

The spokesman said the number of visitors to the resort dropped after the border immigration office tightened its review of visitor applications.

He said the move is aimed at ensuring the safety of South Korean tourists to the North, adding the government is not trying to cut the number of visitors.

As of Tuesday morning, over 14-hundred South Koreans are in the North — about 11-hundred in Gaeseong and 269 at Geumgang resort.