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Who north korea claims was a spy, and they have already tried and convicted him of many years of hard labor. it's a difficult and tenuous situation. the secretary of state rex tillerson saying last week when asked about the detainees it is a delicate situation, and we are working on it. we know that the tour group that took otto warmbier into north korea has now this tuesday decided it will no longer accept u.s. citizens when traveling to north korea. other tour groups are reviewing their options. the state department saying they strongly advice against, but there is no full ban at this point....

Secretary tillerson saying it's a delicate situation. it's a balancing act. if they put more pressure on china, they're asking china to do more when it comes to the nuclear program that north korea has. it's an awful lot that they're asking for. you see there is real anger, not just in washington and the u.s. but around the world and shock that this situation has been allowed to happen. i've spoken to a number of north korean watchers. they say nobody would have expected this. they were blind sided that the north korean regime could stoop this low. >> we are seeing tour groups stopping trips t...

United states could be putting more pressure on china to try and do more. of course, they're in a fairly tricky situation because you have to remember there are still three americans being held in north korea. there are two academics working at the pyongyang university for science and technology. there is also a businessman who north korea has accused of being a spy. he has been convicted and sentenced to hard --. it's a very -- to hard labor. it's a very tricky situation to find themselves in at this point. interestingly, we are seeing the tour group that otto warmbier was on. pioneer tours w...

Because one of these restrictions now is that you cannot -- americans are prohibited, even if they appear on something that's allowed on a type of feevisa that's allowed, they can't spend money on a hotel that has any direct ties to the military. that's very tough to do in cuba, because so much of this economy is tied to the cuban military. >> exactly. so we'll have to see how it's implicated. it's a broad coalition, then you can't buy a bottle of water. sometimes you can't grab a taxi. it will be ---io ioyou know, we have to see the details when they come out. but most importantly, this is su...

Actually stating that they applaud the president for making this change to the obama policy because they feel that the obama policy was giving way to too many concessions to oppressive regime who did not want to change its culture and developing tourism to the military. the president will probably try and strike a new deal with cuba as it moves forward. >> shannon: what we are hearing as part of the policy that the president wants to restrict the flow of money to oppressive elements of the cuba regime. he wants to end individual people to people travel designations, as according to his senior ...