SEOUL - A BRITISH-RUN travel agency which specialises in tours to North Korea disclosed on Monday that South Korea was blocking its website because of alleged pro-Pyongyang material.
Beijing-based Koryo Tours described the ban as 'disproportionate and unjust'. But a Seoul official said the action, in force since late January, would continue until changes were made in its content.
Koryo Tours has been promoting tourism and cultural exchanges with North Korea since 1993.
It said Seoul had blocked access on South Korean servers to its company website, with the addresses www.koryogroup.com and www.koryotours.com, at the request of the National Intelligence Service (NIS).
This was on the grounds that the content violated the South's National Security Act and other laws banning 'propagandist' information about the North.
The tour company said in a statement its site was also seen as breaching a law banning South Koreans from contacting or visiting the North without permission. -- AFP
