Despite high tensions on the Korean Peninsula resulting from North Korea’s provocations, a growing number of Americans are rushing to airports to travel to the reclusive state.
 
The demand comes as Americans will be prohibited from traveling to the North starting from September first.
 
Long lines of Americans are reported to be waiting in the Beijing Capital International Airport to get on planes bound for Pyongyang.
 
The U.S. government decided to put a travel ban on North Korea following the death of American university student Otto Warmbier in June, who fell into a coma while in North Korean custody.
 
It is estimated that around five-thousand Westerners travel to the North a year and among that total, roughly one-thousand are Americans.
 
Though Pyongyang claims that the North is a safe place for travel, Americans who’ll travel to the North in the few remaining days of this month are expected to be the last American tourists who’ll enter the North for a while.

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