• Korean waitresses play music at the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in July. The United Arab Emirates says it will stop issuing new visas to North Korean laborers, becoming the latest Gulf country to cut back on ties to Pyongyang amid tensions between North Korea and the U.S. The announcement by the UAE Foreign Ministry on Thursday did not address the thousands of North Korean laborers already working in the Emirates. | AP
    Korean waitresses play music at the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in July. The United Arab Emirates says it will stop issuing new visas to North Korean laborers, becoming the latest Gulf country to cut back on ties to Pyongyang amid tensions between North Korea and the U.S. The announcement by the UAE Foreign Ministry on Thursday did not address the thousands of North Korean laborers already working in the Emirates. | AP

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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – The United Arab Emirates said on Thursday it was ending the mission of North Korea’s nonresident ambassador and terminating its own envoy’s services in Pyongyang, the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency WAM.

The UAE would also stop issuing new visas or company licenses to North Korean citizens, WAM added.

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