A Japanese daily reports North Korea is demanding that foreigners remain at their homes or leave the communist country in the wake of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s death.

Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun quoted Chinese people who frequently visit North Korea as saying the North’s government is demanding that foreigners leave.

A Chinese student studying in Pyongyang said North Korean professors ordered Chinese and Russian students to avoid going out of their residences.

The Japanese daily said that North Korean authorities apparently want to block any contact between foreigners and North Korean people due to concerns that the internal situation in the North could be revealed to the outside world.